Sicily: Questura Failure + Palermo sightseeing etc.

We went into downtown Palermo, to the head office of the provincial (territorial?) Questura to get Christopher's permit. Sadly, we'd been mis-informed about the address. Sigh. We went to the Questura which deals with Italians seeking permits.  Seeing as I'm not Italian, and neither is Christopher; it was the wrong address. We were supposed to go to some office in the suburban hinterland of Palermo, about a 40 minute drive from where we'd gone. I was desperately under caffeinated, having gotten up absurdly early and paid for train tickets to do this thing. We had no car, and tickets to return from Palermo that afternoon on the train.

The only thing to do was 'f' it and move on to see some sights of Palermo. We visited a very quiet Dioscean museum which houses art works unhoused from their original churches by WWII bombings. Some of the works were lovely, others disturbing. We were both very intrigued by some carved stonework - originally from a church facade that included every monster and half-beast imaginable. No photos were allowed and we were followed/guided throughout the museum.

Then we decided to just wander around, following whomever we pleased in the tiny side streets (called 'vicolos') and we stumbled on one of Palermo's larger street markets - it had everything + more. A few times over. The weirdest thing was the guy with a basket of guts that he put on bread and sold for a couple Euros. Man food, definitely - guys were all over that stuff! The vendor would reach into the covered basket and pull out a bunch of 'stuff' and slap it on a bun. Neither of us was brave enough.

We did buy some capers in salt from the Island of Pantelarea (off the coast of Sicily and reputed to have the best capers) and some olives from the province of Calabria and some salumi from Corleone.