It has occurred to me several times in the past that this whole trip narrative would be easier to read if it were in forward order, and maybe it’d be nice to make it easier to see what happened on a different day before reading it. So I’ve come up with this set of graphic links. Click on the day you are interested in and you should go right there. 
Dolphins to see me off to home.
Coins of the Day: Leif Ericson (Leifur Eiriksson) commemoratives.
The Uffizi, one of the greatest art museums in the world.
The Coin of the Day is ancient Neapolitan.
Today I spent the first full day in Florence, and got educated on Renaissance architecture and the Medicis and (oh yeah, almost forgot) got to see Michaelangelo’s David.
The Coins of the Day are issues of Marcus Aurelius.
Today I left the island of Sicily and went to the Italian mainland, the city of Florence, the nucleus of the Renaissance.
The Coin of the Day is from Taras.
Steve on Coins 