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An adventure on a Vespa
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Most of the Italian passengers were out on the deck feverishly thumbing text messages and making frantic calls on their mobile phones. In the beginning I feared that I'd missed an announcement to abandon ship.
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The noise made by my neighbours resulted in I was up on deck when we approached Palermo at dawn the following day.
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Monte Pellegrino stood regally crowned by a wisp of morning mist and also the high mountain range that ran across the back of the city glowed early in the day sun.
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But over the next couple of minutes at least half a dozen scooter riders plunged right into a chaotic scrum of market stalls. So I chose to give it a try myself.
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