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Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 16: Endangered sexy ibis, Marine Heatwave Gary, gold in eucalypts, and Antarctic flora
Josie, Jessie, and Jesse discuss the need to name marine heatwaves, the waylaid northern bald ibis, distal clues to gold deposits, the plants of Antarctica and speak with one of our wearable tech experts, Samy Movassaghi on her research and career path.
Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 15: Please no Genie McGene Face, infertile invasive mozzies, and science digest
Researchers Kate Tepper and Gavin Volpato join Jesse to chat about our project to release sterilised male mosquitoes to drown-out an invasive mozzie species responsible for dengue fever and Zika—plus, also a fortnight science news digest.
Interronauts | Episode 13: Broccoli lattes, robot ecologists, and a new hope against the feline menace
This episode, Sarah Frazer joins the roster to talk about our robot ecologists in the Amazon, the plan to augment feral cats into all-male clowders, the use of ugly veggies into delightful powders for your coffee, and researchers' best attempt yet at weighing all life on Earth.
Interronauts | [Bonus bowerbird episode]
A bonus episode of our podcast, Interronauts! In this episode we talk about how living on farms helps symptoms of asthma and allergies, festive heart attacks, being over-run by ever so destructive feral cats, defining all of plants, and a pocketful of bloopers, misc. and bonus tatters.
Interronauts | Episode 12: Elephant scarecrow, the OG, Adam & Eve of flowers, tarantula venom to save sheep, and Interronauts farewell
On Episode 12, before a hiatus, the Interronauts talk about: giving scarecrows a brain, the evolution of the first flower ever, and using tarantula venom to treat enwormed sheep! Get excited for some classic Interronauts science news.
Interronauts | Episode 11: Eggs to live birth — how pregnancy evolved, Alzheimer's link with iron deposits, bonobos don't overimitate, and Cassini's grand finale
This fortnight Jesse and Sophie chat about breaking news from Yale on the evolution of pregnancy in marsupials and eutherians (ourselves), childhood learning in apes (bonobos' inability to copy silly stuff), a chat with Dr Olivier Salvado about iron deposits' relationship with Alzheimer's, and finally the living funeral of NASA's Cassini.
Interronauts | Episode 10: Caterpillars brainwashed into cannibals, Sampling the Abyss, Croque-MonScience, and transforming uggo fruit into stars
Join Jesse and Sophie as they talk about cannibalistic caterpillars, ugly fruit and veg turned into snacks, Croque MonScience, and Sampling the Abyss.
Interronauts | Episode 9: Where brains store faces, ancient origins of humans, blood vessel algorithm, and Aus spider guide magic
Podcast Episode 9, Jesse and Sophie chat about how it is that we're able to remember (tens of) thousands of faces with relative ease, our new algorithm that can model blood vessel growth to pre-empt tumours, the ancient origins of Homo sapiens (100 000 years older than expected), and, they speak with Robert Whyte, co-author of A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia.
Interronauts | The CSIRO Podcast
Interronauts is our podcast that puts a rose-tinted magnifying glass to science news from around the world, Australia, and inside our organisation. Hosted by Jesse Hawley and Sophie Schmidt from our communications team.
Interronauts | Episode 7: Polyamorous hammerheads, fit devils fade fastest, renewable fuels, and a chat with the Jellyfish Goddess
Jesse and Sophie dive back into science news, discussing why the fittest Tassie devils succumb to facial tumours, how to transport renewable hydrogen gas, the benefits of multiple paternity in sharks, and they speak with Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin (the Jellyfish Goddess).
Interronauts | Episode 2: Spartan ants, graphene from soybeans, VNs, and a chat with Antarctica
Episode 2 of Interronauts—the CSIRO podcast—has Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian discussing new ways to make graphene, the reliability of VPNs, and chatting with Asaesja Young live (podcast live) from Antarctica!
Interronauts | Pilot Episode: Whale Menopause, Panda Thumbs, Frisky Wrens, and Antarctic Voyages
In the pilot episode of Interronauts, the CSIRO podcast, Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian talk about menopausal whales, panda thumbs, Tasmanian tiger brains, and frisky wrens. They also have a chat with Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith about the launch of the new ASKAP radio telescope, and discuss research around CSIRO: mouse plagues and trips to Antarctica.


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Scarborough RUFC have moved quickly to appoint Lee Douglas as their new head coach after the departure of Jason Lowde.
Douglas, who has an impressive track record as both a player and then as a coach, takes over at Silver Royd and is keen to get stuck into his new role.
Douglas said: "I'm really pleased. I'm looking forward to getting started.
"It's quite an exciting prospect. The facilities here at Scarborough are fantastic, you're not going to get much better and that's one of the things that drew me to the club."
Douglas, who enjoyed a distinguished playing career before taking up coaching, had a spell in charge of Scarborough's fierce rivals Bridlington, but the new man at the helm doesn't see that as a problem.
He added: "I coached at Bridlington for three years and had a little bit of success there.
"I'm well aware of the rivalry between the clubs and it will definitely be interesting going back there.
"I don't hold any sentiment in sport though. I love winning, just like anybody else."
The new coach is keen to see Scarborough play a wide, expansive brand of rugby, but admits it is important for him to run the rule over the playing squad at the club before they decide on their strategy going forward.
"I want to play an expansive game, but if we can't do that then we can't do it," added Douglas.
"Pre-season will be very important for us. Getting to know the players and most importantly getting them to buy into the way we're going to play."
SRUFC chief executive Graeme Young is pleased Douglas has joined the club.
Young said: "We're delighted with the appointment of Lee.
"The board are going to be taking a more active role and interest in ensuring the club's senior rugby develops as much as our junior sections have in recent years and we believe Lee is the man to carry us forward with that in mind."
Mike Holder, the club's Director of rugby, echoed Young's sentiments.
Holder said: "I've met Lee a few times and I've always been impressed with him.
"To get someone of his calibre here is great for the club.
"We want to realise our potential and we know Lee is the right man for the job."


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Portugal – Escape to the Atlantic Coast
Belem Tower, perhaps the best known sight in Lisbon, if not all of Portugal.
Dublin around the time of the Ides of March is a perilous place to be, packed with tourists and locals eager for an excuse to party and imbibe a beer or two. Getting from one end of O'Connell St to the other can take up most of St. Patrick's Day if you're unwary. Most years, I stay at home while the parade's on or make the most of the long weekend in quieter gatherings with friends. This time I took myself out of the country entirely and spent five days in Portugal instead.
This isn't a thorough description of what I did on that trip. If you want that, you can check it out here: Portugal 2018 What it is is a brief run through the best parts of the trip, which took in two cities, lots of walking, and nearly as much in the way of custard tarts. I'm not sure how well the latter two balanced out in the end, but I hadn't put on any weight by the time I came back.
First up on the trip was Lisbon. Largely flattened in the terrible earthquake of 1755 and rebuilt to the design of the Marques de Pombal, it's an exercise in contrasts. The broad estuary of the Tagus river almost makes it a seaside city, but Lisbon itself has been built across seven hills, notably steeper than the more famous seven hills of Rome, and the rebuilt zones of broad avenues laid out in grid patterns lie cheek by jowl with streets that twist to follow the hillside curves and older parts of the city that survived the quake and still have their narrow alleys and narrower houses. There's a lot to see here, but Lisbon sprawls widely across the north bank of the Tagus, and it's far from ideal for walking – not that I didn't give it my best shot. Luckily, the metro, buses, and trams combine to make getting around a stressless experience, and with outlying areas like Belem having some of the best sights and the hilltop Parque Florestal de Monsanto having some of the best walking routes, you'll want to make the effort.
Porto was my other city stop. Towards the north of Portugal, it straddles the narrower and lazier Douro river, but its' western edges touch on the wild Atlantic Ocean, and the squalls of wind and rain keep the weather uncertain. Smaller and more intimate than Lisbon, it's more fun to explore and more plausible for a walker capable of handling the hills that rise on either side of the river. Porto of course is also the home of port wine, made from grapes grown upriver in the Douro valley, and the southern riverbank is dotted with wineries who'll be all too happy to show you around and let you sample their offerings once you pay the tour fee. If Porto has a favourite architecture, it's the baroque, with its gilding and decoration dotting every corner, whether it be in churches or in the Livraria Lello bookshop, with its swooping staircase. There's also the option to take a tour upriver, and while I didn't get the chance to do that this time, I'd be interested in taking the option next time I'm in the city.
Two cities and no chance to see the countryside between them, other than through the windows of a high-speed train or from high above in the airplane home. I managed to walk and run a lot of both of them though, and to recompense me for my effort, both cities had good food and drink to offer. The prize on this front had to go to Portugal's famous pasteis de nata, custard tarts with scorched toppings, of which I had well north of a dozen in the five days I was in the country. I would have had more too, but I was trying to control myself. Which, now that I think about it, was not necessarily the best approach to taking a holiday. Ah well, all the more reason to return one day.
Luxembourg and Brussels – Familiar Places
(Yes, this travel diary is exceptionally out of date at this stage. Such are the perils of following a procrastinating writer.)
I've only been to one of these places before, so I'll focus on the other one. There'll be a bit about Belgium at the end, but mostly this is about Luxembourg. A word of warning though: I'm writing this under the influence of a day of travel compounded by a 90 minute delay for a Ryanair flight. So take every other word with a grain of salt.
Luxembourg was the third micro-nation I hit on this trip, but it's on the edge of deserving this status. It's bigger than most of the European micro-nations put together, and where San Marino and Liechtenstein were small enough that you could see from one side to the other on a clear-ish day, Luxembourg is big enough for its corners to be just as scruffy as those of larger nations.
What Luxembourg does have in common with its smaller brethren is that it's rich. Having sat at the heart of European affairs since the days of the European Coal and Steel Community, the old city is a commendably neat and tidy revamp of a former walled citadel now turned fortress of finance. There are some very expensive, very shiny cars driving around the place, is what I'm trying to say.
Not that you'd recognise the place as a former fortress if you approached it from the west side. Where massive bastions once stood are now broad avenues and neatly tended gardens. It's only on the eastern side of the city, where the last remnants of the original Bock fortress stand, that you can get an idea of how valuable this place used to be. Founded in the tenth century (there's a whole legend involving a river mermaid), the Bock commanded a view over the river below, and over the centuries tunnels and storerooms were carved out of the rock below,
You can still wander those passages, and I did so on the first night I arrived. The last tour group was leaving as I arrived, so I had the place more or less to myself for the next hour and half—there are arrows placed in the ground pointing to the exit, but there's no set path through the narrow passages and the caverns that open out onto views on the valley below. It was only when I became worried they'd close the place with me in it that I started to pay attention to the arrows and found my way out.
Luxembourg in the day is a much neater and more understandable prospect. The national museum covers the thousand-year story of the nation over several floors, the lowest of which are carved into the rock below the city, with massive models demonstrating how Luxembourg was shaped over the centuries. Once, when the House of Luxembourg were kings of the Holy Roman Empire, the fate of nations was decided here. Now the decisions made in council chambers are more abstract but no less weighty.
In the end, Luxembourg felt a little neat and sanitised. Like San Marino, everything has been cleaned and polished, and you have to dive down into the valley to get a better sense of the place. A special mention ought to go to the viewing platform north of the Bock, where you can stand on a glass floor and contemplate the multi-storey drop below.
So then, on to Brussels and the end of the trip. I've been here multiple times and like both the people and the place. So apart from an evening of a little food and a little drink, I wanted to see if I could look at something further afield. The options were the battlefield at Waterloo (to annoy someone who'll never read this) or the beach at Knokke, to complete my journey from the Mediterranean to the north sea. Of course, the beach won.
Not that I had much time to spend there. Courtesy of Belgium's leisurely trains and the extremely long avenue leading from the train terminus to the beach, I had no more time at the water's edge than it took to take a couple of photos and wet my feet. (In point of fact, I'd misread the timetable and had around half an hour more than I thought, but a few minutes was all I got.)
Which brought the whole journey to an end. What had started in the parched streets of Palermo on the island of Sicily, had taken me north through Italy, across the Alps to Switzerland, on to the familiar city of Brussels, hitting three small nations along the way, came to a close on the sands of the North Sea, caught between tourism and a massive seaport on the horizon. Yes, there would be a journey back to Brussels and on to the airport and from thence to Dublin, but that was it. Another journey ended.
I'll get around to absorbing it and adding any extra thoughts in a while. For now, thanks for reading and I hope you've enjoyed these posts. More detailed descriptions of what I got up to will appear in the Travels section above soon.
Liechtenstein and Zurich – The Alpine Experience
There's going to be a lot packed into this one, so pay attention. As soon as you leave Milan, headed for Tirano, you're in the Alps, racing along the shores of Lake Como towards the mountains. To an extent, this doesn't even feel like Italy anymore, or at least not the Italy I started in, back in Palermo. This is Alpine territory, of high, green meadows and bells ringing in valleys overlooked by mountains that rear up, shouldering their rocky peaks above a mantle of forest.
If you like trains at all, I'd recommend the Bernina Express as the way to see the Alps. From comfortable seats before panoramic windows, you'll have a view of clear mountain streams, those green valleys, viaducts, mountains, glaciers, high lakes, and everything else that the Swiss have spent centuries learning how to build on or through. I saw it in the late summer, when green was the predominant colour, but in the winter it all turns to white and the experience is said to be every bit as impressive.
As for what was waiting on the other side, Liechtenstein is an odd little country, with an emphasis on the little. I'd been planning on staying two days, but two things cut that short: First, I saw most of Vaduz in the process of one morning stroll (to give you an idea of scale, the map of the city includes house numbers), and second, it's stupidly expensive. Which makes sense given that it's a tax haven of sorts, and it did give me a bit of warning with regard to what Zurich was going to be like, but it was still a shock.
So I spent one night and a few hours there instead, enjoying the clear mountain air and the views, which were only a little spoiled by clouds that cut off the tops of the mountains. Liechtenstein's tiny territory is bordered by the Rhine and the mountains, and it takes little more than half an hour to cross from one to the other. Perhaps the most fun thing to visit was the football stadium—they're very proud of the national team here, for all that they're the ultimate in European minnows. Or at least they were until Gibraltar somehow got a team of their own.
Stroll over the bridge across the Rhine and you're in Switzerland. You don't even have to do that much if you're a mobile phone—mine kept swapping between Swiss and Liechtenstein carriers every time I approached the river. When I eventually took the bus out of town, in search of the Sargans Bahnhof where'd I'd get the train to Zurich, this was one reminder of my travelling ways I was glad to leave behind.
In truth, there's not much culturally to separate the two nations. Maybe the Swiss are a little more uptight, at least on first encountering them. Unlike most places I've been, where they'll switch to English as soon as they figure out where you're from, the Swiss will assume that you know what you're doing if you try to speak a language not your own. So be wary if you want to try out your foreign tongues here.
As mentioned, Zurich is expensive. Evidence of this can be seen in the houses that line the waterfront of the Zurichsee and the slopes to the east, and proof can be found every time that feel like going for a drink or eating out. Try to keep that to a minimum if you want your funds to survive a few days here. I'm generally not too proscriptive when it comes to spending money on holidays, but even so I couldn't justify visiting a restaurant with €40 main courses.
Saving money is possible though: there are 24-hour and 72-hour travel passes, which will speed your way on the many public transport options and a lot of museums. Mine took me on a round trip of the northern half of the Zurichsee, down from the heights of the Uetliberg mountain to the west of the city (some might say it would have been more sensible to take the tram up, then walk down, instead of the other way around), through the excellent Landesmuseum and its exhibits, and then up the eastern slopes of the city too, to where the city zoo sits right next door to the FIFA world headquarters.
(There's a joke to be made here about amoral creatures with insatiable appetites, trapped in a structure that should never have been built, but I'm sure someone else can construct it better than I could.)
In short, if you make a bit of an effort, you can enjoy Zurich on something resembling a sensible budget. If you make the most of the Co-Op supermarkets that are everywhere, you'll probably even manage much better than I did. It's worth the effort too. While I loved Liechtenstein for its quiet isolation, I enjoyed Zurich for its reserved honesty. There's plenty to do and see, and lots of narrow alleys, steep streets, hidden parks and other places to discover. The Landesmuseum exhibit on Swiss history is open, if regretfully so, about how Switzerland's history of democracy, neutrality and isolationism has had its downsides. If we could be so honest about ourselves in Ireland, it would be a big step forward.
Rimini and San Marino—Sand and Stone
Let's start with San Marino, as it was the reason that I was in Rimini in the first place, rather than being a bonus added on to a stay in Italy's Adriatic beach resort. Founded in 301AD, if you believe the local legends, San Marino rests on and around Monte Titano and likes to refer to itself as the "Titanic Republic". Which probably counts as overcompensating, given that it's the third smallest nation in Europe (only Vatican City and Monaco are smaller, and those two are essentially just cities).
It's not like it really needs to compensate for anything, as San Marino offers plenty to stun visitors. Perched on its mountain peak, it commands views across a good chunk of northeastern Italy. Rimini and the Adriatic are easily visible on a clear day, and the valleys of Italy's more mountainous interior are just as open to viewers from on high. Maintaining your independence across the centuries was undoubtedly made much easier due to being able to see pretty much any threat long before it became a problem.
The first impression of San Marino, just off the tour bus from Rimini, might be a little underwhelming though. This isn't a picturesque ruin: it's a working, living city (albeit one heavily weighted towards tourism). The stonework is neatly chiselled and well maintained, and the streets are spotlessly clean. It can all seem a bit quaint and even kitschy. The overabundance of tourist-trap shops doesn't help, even when half of them also seem to be selling guns.
Step away from the well-groomed northern part of the mountain though and you'll find more interesting sights. Clean and cobbled streets give way to (well-tended) mountain paths that lead up to and between the three towers that protected San Marino in days gone by. Each of them are well preserved, but their sites and prospects are still breathtaking, especially that of the lonely third tower, a single edifice that rises up on the edge of a cliff, commanding views to the east, south and west.
As a tick on the list of nations to visit goes, San Marino didn't disappoint. I just wished that I could have learned more about it. As mentioned, tourism seems to trump all, and the State Museum is a little light on the actual history of San Marino, preferring to load up on local artefacts and fill in the gaps with strange items from foreign lands donated by local grandees. It's all a little lightweight, and given that the other museums nearby include a Museum of Torture and a Museum of Vampires, detailed history proves thin on the ground.
Oddly, Rimini fares better on that front. I say oddly, because my first experience of Rimini was of a battlefield of a beach, occupied by an army of deckchairs. This place is resort central, and any Italian charm is flattened under the need to welcome and feed as many guests as possible, divest them of their money, and shuffle in the next crowd. Not to my taste (though I did enjoy the chance for an early morning dip in the Adriatic).
Venture onto the other side of the (railroad) tracks though, and something different emerges. Rimini was once Ariminum, a coastal town formerly inhabited by the Etruscans and others. Plenty of Roman relics remain, not least in the layout of the compact city centre. It's not a large place by any means and is likely dwarfed by the beach resort that shares its name, but it's worth strolling through. For one thing, it has lots of charm in its own right, and for another that stroll might just take you across a 1,995-year-old bridge built by the Emperor Tiberius, which still serves as a (single lane) crossing for cars. How many times in your life are you going to get to walk across something like that?
In short, San Marino is definitely the big draw here and deservedly so. Its mountaintop vistas and winding streets are worth spending a good chunk of a day exploring, though you're likely to tire of it long before it tires of trying to sell you stuff. Rimini, on the other hand, is worth persevering with: beneath, or rather behind, the trappings of a modern day beach resort is a charming little town with plenty of its own history and culture to root around in. I'm glad I had the chance to do so, and it made me happier about deciding to stay there in the first place.
Naples – Vesuvius and What it Left Behind
(Apologies for the delay on this one – things have been hectic since I got home. Well, hectic-ish. Next one will be along sooner.)
This is going to be all about Pompeii. Well, almost. This shouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone who's had a look at my bookshelves or knows of my historical preferences. As much as the Romans could be an unpleasant bunch, they had an unrivalled influence on western civilisation, and there's enough of their writings and edifices that remain to get a pretty strong idea of what life in their time was like.
Pompeii, that most famous relic of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., demonstrates both just how much of ancient Rome we have access to and how distant we still are from it. Streets of fast-food vendors, sports stadiums, the mansions of the suburban rich, and brothels in the back alleys of the red light district are all there to be seen. However, so are stepping stones across streets that allowed citizens to keep their feet out of the rivers of sewage that flowed downhill. So while a lot of Rome might have been familiar to us, there's a lot more that would have given us pause. (More on that later.)
A guided tour through Pompeii is a good introduction to the city that Vesuvius buried, but you ought to set aside more time to explore afterwards, as no tour is going to do any more than hit some of the highlights. Two of the most impressive parts of the city—the Villa of the Mysteries and the Amphitheatre—lie at diametrically opposite parts of the site, and most tours will stick to the central section instead.
To complete your Pompeiian experience, there are a couple of options. You could visit Herculaneum, the other victim of Vesuvius, which I didn't do, or you could head to the National Archaeological Museum, which I did. That museum is split between the relics of Pompeii and the Farnese Collection, which is one of the finest gatherings of classical sculpture in the world, outdone only (possibly?) by the Pope's own collection in the Vatican. At least one of the Farneses was Pope too, so there's been some cross-pollination.
That collection certainly shouldn't be missed, but the Pompeiian relics are just as interesting. The mosaics and frescoes are some of the best you'll see anywhere, including the famous mosaic of Alexander the Great from the House of the Faun (a copy of it now sits in the original house in Pompeii). Rather more amusing is the collection of Roman erotica that's tucked away into a corner of the museum, guarded by a warning (in Italian) that kids aged 14 or less maybe should go get their culture somewhere else.
You see, one of the things that the excavation of Pompeii did was to puncture forever the image of Romans as dignified elderly types, delivering fine speeches to other dignified elderly types. Whatever truth there is to that image, the Romans were also open and frank about sex and obsessed with dicks. (all right—phalluses.) Even the moralistic Augustus was said to have his own private book of porn. The museum's collection of erotica includes a range of frescoes kept away from the general public and some completely explicit sculptures, including a Mercury adorned with multiple penises, Pan having sex with a goat, and a winged dick suspended from a chain. Frankly, after roaming these rooms for a little while, you'll run out of synonyms for male genitalia and need a breather. Or possibly a cold shower.
Naples, much like Palermo, only really comes alive at night. Once the sun has gone, people crowd the shopping district that runs downhill from the National Archaeological Museum, past the Piazza Dante and along the Via Toledo. Perhaps it was just that it was a Friday night, but it certainly seemed to me like everyone was out and having a good time. At least for as long as the weather held—before the night was through, the night was rent by a particularly impressive storm, with Jupiter tossing around thunderbolts a couple of time every minute.
Luckily for me, I was already safe indoors and away from the torrential rain at that stage, having circled back to my lodgings via the Piazza del Plebiscito and the impressively solid Castel Nuovo. Still, if there's any fitting way to end a visit to the vicinity of Vesuvius, it's with a demonstration of the fact that natural forces are to be cowered before whenever they start to throw their weight around.
Palermo – Out on its Own
My first experience of Palermo and Sicily was the sparkling blue of the Tyrrenhian Sea contrasting with the terracotta dust of late-summer/early-autumn. Sicily, which I'd heard so much about but never seen, was rocky in its northwestern corner, with steep peaks rising straight out of the sea, and Palermo itself sprawled across a shallow valley caught between several of those peaks.
It's not an easy city to get to grips with, because it doesn't have a strongly defined centre. Instead, there are a few streets running north-south and one key one that runs east-west. Stray too far from any of these and you might find yourself among run-down quarters with narrow alleys full of street vendors' stalls, rows of apartment blocks that can be either new or crumbling relics of ages past, or parched gardens that offer some shade in the heat that lingers on after the departed summer.
There's no metro in Palermo, and the only tram I saw actually runs from the non-central train station to an outlying shopping centre, so if you're going to explore, it'll have to be on foot. (Forget about wheeled transport unless you're willing to wait on buses or take your life in your hand on a moped. In fact, the very existence of mopeds requires pedestrians to be either vigilant or accepting of potential disaster.) I like exploration by foot though, so that suits me pretty well.
As far as another habit of mine goes—that of climbing on top of tall buildings to get a better idea of the city I'm in—there are some good options, albeit none too tall. The first and preferable is the Teatro Massimo, Europe's third-largest opera house. Take the excellent tour around the opera house itself and pay the extra to get up to the terrace. Courtesy of a slow elevator and some steep steps you'll get to enjoy the best view of the city. Mostly unobstructed, it's the best way to get a feel for how Palermo has spread out to occupy the space available.
Palermo Cathedral offers the next best thing when it comes to viewing the city, but the cathedral's towers get in the way of the view, and the narrower space up there can get a bit more crowded. It is a good bit cheaper though, and as a bonus you also get access to the royal tombs that the cathedral holds (Sicily had its own kings up until Italy's unification) and the crypt beneath, which contains relics dating back to the Norman occupation of the 12th century. Or possibly even earlier, given the Cardinals' habit of re-using convenient sarcophagi.
The crypt is a good place to get a feel for how old Sicilian habitation has been and how many different groups have claimed it over the centuries. From the original inhabitants to the Phoenician and Greek settlers, to the following Carthaginians and Romans, who waged their first Punic War over the island, through the Arabs and the Normans to the European dynasties who fought over the island until Italy put its boot down, there are layers of warfare, trade, and settlement everywhere you look.
Getting an explanation of all of this history is a little more difficult. The Archaeological Museum is mostly closed for renovations at the moment, with only one out of three floors open. That one floor is free to visit though, and it's a really well presented exploration of some of Sicily's earliest history, with a particular focus on the Greek city of Selinunte. It's really well laid out and explained, and as the rest of the museum opens up, it'll be even more worth your time.
Palermo, then, is hard to get to grips with but worth the effort. If I had more time, it would be a great place to start an exploration of the island from. As it was, I didn't get a chance to break out of the city, though the two days I had there were filled as far as I was able with the aid of two feet and a handy map. There's great food to be had (especially seafood) and sights to see, but when my time was done, it was the Palermo Centrale train station that drew me, with the promise of a bed that would carry me east to Messina and across the straits to the mainland, to visit Naples, Pompeii and Vesuvius next.
From South to North
As mentioned in my previous post, I'm once again taking time off from local affairs this September and heading for less familiar climes. Moreover, so as not to break with tradition, I'm not just travelling to, I'm travelling through. Hitting all sorts of nations and cities that I've never been to before.
This excursion feels a little different from previous years though. This time there's no strong theme, as there was in my Eastern European journey last year, or my exploration of Greece the year before. Instead, there's just a direction: south to north, from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. Or as close to the North Sea as I can manage. If there's a binding theme at all, it's one of filling gaps in my collection of nations; visiting places that I haven't been to, or even near to.
As I said, it feels a little off-kilter, as though the series of mostly train-based journeys that I've been on since Norway, back in 2009, is coming to an end. The two or three further European trips that are percolating in my head don't suit train-based shenanigans nearly as well, and the continents further afield that await my bootprints are even less amenable to sticking to the iron rails.
It may just be time for me to stretch my conception of what a travelling holiday might be. No bad thing that—I've gotten a lot out of rail (and sea) travel, but this holiday will stretch the balance between exploring and watching the landscape speed by about as far as it's likely to go.
As for this trip, there'll be plenty to keep myself occupied (and not just making sure that I catch the next connection). I'll be kicking off in Italy, which is familiar enough in itself, albeit in a part of it that I've never been to before: Palermo, Sicily. An island that's been the site of contention ever since the Greeks and the Phoenicians first started looking crosswise at each other, it's a long way south of any part of Italy (Rome) that I've been in before, and it'll feed my lust for history nicely.
An overnight train (the only one of this trip) will take me across Sicily and the Straits of Messina (loading the train onto a boat in the process, which I'll likely sleep through) and on through the night to Naples. Which is worthy of a visit in itself, even if it weren't for the presence of Vesuvius and the ruins of Pompeii in close attendance. I won't miss out on those, I can assure you. It's no accident that the overnight train will drop me off beside the Circumvesuviana line to the ruins at a time when the tour groups have yet to have their breakfast. Should I be able to drag myself away from this long-awaited visit to the preserved ruins of ancient Rome, I'll see as much of Naples as I can in the time remaining.
Onwards then from Naples and one of the more awkward routes of the trip. North through and past Rome to Bologna, then an almost-180-degree reversal to head south east to the Adriatic coast and Rimini. Why stop here? Well, Rimini itself and the nearby beaches are said to be well worth the visit, but that's less my style than the small nation-state only a short bus ride away. San Marino has been happily independent for a very long time, and for all that it's tiny in comparison to the Italian nation that enfolds it, it should be well worth a visit in its own right.
After Rimini and San Marino have had their fill of me, it's north again, this time to Milan. I came close here last year with a layover in nearby Bergamo, but Milan is the big dog of northern Italian cities, nestled in under the Alps, and it should be interesting to compare it to the more southerly Italian locations that I'll have passed through to get there. However, for the most part it's a breathing space before tackling the mountains.
If any day is going to mark my complete over-commitment to the rail theme, this one will. Three nations, three trains (and a bus), and as many mountains as you may care to shake a stick at. From Milan to Tirano, there to catch the Bernina Express that'll see me safely over the Alps, through some of the most fabulous scenery to be had in Europe. That will deposit me in Chur in Switzerland, from whence a train to Sargans and a bus to Vaduz will drop me in a nation almost as small as San Marino: Liechtenstein.
This is where the nature of the trip and the problems with it ought to become apparent: I'm on a one-way trip to Checklist-ville. Last year I visited ten countries, but I had just over three weeks in which to do so, which meant I averaged out at around two days in each. This time, I've got a little less than 12 days to cross Europe from south to north, and in way too many places I'll be there no longer than it takes to have a look around. At least in Liechtenstein, where an afternoon stroll is enough to take you across the country from west to east, I'll see a good percentage of it before I go.
Switzerland's efficient public transport system will shuttle me back from Vaduz, across the border and on to Zurich. Given that my major Swiss influences extend to Heidi, William Tell and one of the Asterix books, it's fair to say that I have little or no idea of what to expect here. However it turns out, given that Switzerland is one of the world's most heavily armed countries, I will at least be on my very best behaviour.
From Zurich, it's all downhill on the home stretch of this trip. Specifically downhill towards Mulhouse in France on a TGV, then onwards to my next destination, Europe's biggest mini-nation. Luxembourg is a giant compared to San Marino or Liechtenstein, even if it's trapped between France, Belgium and Germany, and it's been at the heart of the European Union ever since its founding. I have been told by someone who ought to know that there's nothing there to see there, but I feel that in these dark times of Brexit and Grexit, it's probably sensible to visit the beating heart of the Euro Illuminati and make sure that I'm not on their "naughty" list.
After all, Luxembourg is just three hours on the train from my very final stop, which is the even more EU-centric capital of Belgium—Brussels. A place I've become all too familiar with over the past year and a bit, and there's no more friendly or relaxed city to spend a last evening in before a late night flight back to Dublin. I'll do my best to take a day-trip out to the North Sea before I leave, but the allure of beer and waffles may prove too strong.
For now though, I'm just engaged in pre-packing routines, printing out my train tickets (e-tickets are great, but it pays to have a backup), and double-checking everything else. Inevitably I'm going to forget something, as is always the way of holidays, but with all the travelling to be done, it's not likely to be anything that I'll miss much.


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1. Getting a concealed carry permit does not mean you can get a pistol that day. Those who get these have to go through several steps, including background checks, fingerprinting, and classes on shooting. Someone who has a concealed carry will be able to hit a target rather proficiently. Adding to that, teachers should already be background checked, so there is less of a chance of an unsavory character being in possession of a weapon while being around children.
2. The guns would need to be out of reach of the students, but having a gun in the classroom that the teacher can easily get to means that the chance of survival if a shooter targets the classroom much higher.
3. Criminals historically target those who they think are unarmed and vulnerable. They will not attack a place that is able to easily defend themselves, because many shooters want media attention, which will happen if they create a massacre, not if they are the only casualty.
4. When in a fight or die situation, an example being cornered in a room with a shooter, the better option is to fight, because otherwise you will die anyway. A teacher having a gun is an excellent way of defending yourself.
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Here are some facts that show that gun control does not help.
1. The 9 European nations that have the lowest citizen gun ownership have a combined murder rate three times that of the combined murder rate of the 9 European nations with the highest rate of gun ownership.
2. About 200,000 women use a gun to protect from sexual assault in the US every year.
3. Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws and in 2012 there were as many murders in Chicago as in all of Japan.
4. When Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law that required that every home had to have a gun, crime dropped by 50% over the next 23 years, and there was an 89% drop in burglaries.
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How many school shootings could have been stopped by a teacher with a gun.
How many have been stopped? Here is ten examples, and there are many more.
1. In Chicago earlier this year, an Uber driver with a concealed-carry permit "shot and wounded a gunman [Everardo Custodio] who opened fire on a crowd of people."
2. In a Philadelphia barber shop earlier this year, Warren Edwards "opened fire on customers and barbers" after an argument. Another man with a concealed-carry permit then shot the shooter; of course it"s impossible to tell whether the shooter would have kept killing if he hadn"t been stopped, but a police captain was quoted as saying that, "I guess he [the man who shot the shooter] saved a lot of people in there."
3. In a hospital near Philadelphia, in 2014, Richard Plotts shot and killed the psychiatric caseworker with whom he was meeting, and shot and wounded his psychiatrist, Lee Silverman. Silverman shot back, and took down Plotts. While again it"s not certain whether Plotts would have killed other people, Delaware County D.A. Jack Whelan stated that, "If the doctor did not have a firearm, (and) the doctor did not utilize the firearm, he"d be dead today, and I believe that other people in that facility would also be dead"; Yeadon Police Chief Donald Molineux similar said that he "believe[d] the doctor saved lives." Plotts was still carrying 39 unspent rounds when he was arrested. [UPDATE: I added this item since the original post.]
4. In Plymouth, Pa., in 2012, William Allabaugh killed one man and wounded another following an argument over Allabaugh being ejected from a bar. Allabaugh then approached a bar manager and Mark Ktytor and reportedly pointed his gun at them; Ktytor, who had a concealed-carry license, then shot Allabaugh. "The video footage and the evidence reveals that Mr. Allabaugh had turned around and was reapproaching the bar. Mr. [Ktytor] then acted, taking him down. We believe that it could have been much worse that night," Luzerne County A.D.A. Jarrett Ferentino said.
5. Near Spartanburg, S.C., in 2012, Jesse Gates went to his church armed with a shotgun and kicked in a door. But Aaron Guyton, who had a concealed-carry license, drew his gun and pointed it at Gates, and other parishioners then disarmed Gates. Note that in this instance, unlike the others, it"s possible that the criminal wasn"t planning on killing anyone, but just brought the shotgun to church and kicked in the door to draw attention to himself or vent his frustration.
6. In Atlanta in 2009, Calvin Lavant and Jamal Hill broke into an apartment during a party and forced everyone to the floor. After they gathered various valuables, and separated the men and the women, and Lavant said to Hill, "we are about to have sex with these girls, then we are going to kill them all," and began "discussing condoms and the number of bullets in their guns." At that point, Sean Barner, a Marine who was attending Georgia State as part of the Marine Enlisted Commissioning Education Program, managed to get to the book bag he brought to the party; took out his gun; shot and scared away Hill; went into the neighboring room, where Lavant was about to rape one of the women; was shot at by Lavant, and shot back and hit Lavant, who then ran off and later died of his injuries. One of the women was shot and wounded in the shootout, but given the circumstances described in the sources I linked to, it seemed very likely that Lavant and Hill would have killed (as well as raped) some or all of the partygoers had they not been stopped. This incident of course involves a member of the military, not a civilian, so some may discount it on those grounds. But Barner was acting as a civilian, and carrying a gun as a civilian (he had a concealed carry license); indeed, if he had been on a military base, he would generally not have been allowed to carry a gun except when on security duty. [UPDATE: I added this item since the original post.]
7. In Winnemucca, Nev., in 2008, Ernesto Villagomez killed two people and wounded two others in a bar filled with 300 people. He was then shot and killed by a patron who was carrying a gun (and had a concealed-carry license). It"s not clear whether Villagomez would have killed more people; the killings were apparently the result of a family feud, and I could see no information on whether Villagomez had more names on his list, nor could one tell whether he would have killed more people in trying to evade capture.
8. In Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2007, Matthew Murray killed four people at a church. He was then shot several times by Jeanne Assam, a church member, volunteer security guard and former police officer (she had been dismissed by a police department 10 years before, and to my knowledge hadn"t worked as a police officer since). Murray, knocked down and badly wounded, killed himself; it is again not clear whether he would have killed more people had he not been wounded, but my guess is that he would have (UPDATE: he apparently went to the church with more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition).
9. In Edinboro, Pa., in 1998, 14-year-old Andrew Wurst shot and killed a teacher at a school dance, and shot and injured several other students. He had just left the dance hall, carrying his gun " possibly to attack more people, though the stories that I"ve seen are unclear " when he was confronted by the dance hall owner James Strand, who lived next door and kept a shotgun at home. It"s not clear whether Wurst was planning to kill others, would have gotten into a gun battle with the police, or would have otherwise killed more people had Strand not stopped him.
10. In Pearl, Miss., in 1997, 16-year-old Luke Woodham stabbed and bludgeoned to death his mother at home, then killed two students and injured seven at his high school. As he was leaving the school, he was stopped by Assistant Principal Joel Myrick, who had gone out to get a handgun from his car. I have seen sources that state that Woodham was on the way to Pearl Junior High School to continue shooting, though I couldn"t find any contemporaneous news articles that so state.
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