Messina, Sicily, October 22nd

We arrived early at the Messina, Sicily Port (6am)after a full day at sea on October 21st.
We, again, hustled onto a tour bus for our travels up into the mountains to the site of The Godfather's filming. We saw the mud slides and the damage to river beds. We saw a car partially buried in mud. We visited a Cathedral where just earlier in the day, the funeral of a young girl who died in the mud slides a couple weeks ago. When we came upon the village of Forge de Agro, we were enchanted by it's unique history and lovely mountain side vistas, a castle in the distance atop a mountain peak, the tavern in The Godfather Movie where Michael Carlione asks permission to marry his Sicilian bride. The church was stunningly beautiful inside. Then the wedding celebration site, another memory maker. Only the sun shining would make the area a jewel to behold. Sadly, due to clouds we did not see the top of volatile Mount Etna.
We were back to the city of Messina after our tour to the mountain side villages and found the shops closed due to siesta from 2pm to 4pm. So that was the moments we became street walkers and found the huge cathedral that was the site of the funeral for a mudslide victim. The cathedral steeple has a rotating scene of soldier or saints that move about 6 feet with each time the bells chime. We were back on the Carnival Cruise Ship by 4:30pm as we were about to make our way to Barcelona, Spain at 5pm.