ONE GREEN BACKPACK

Italy

Syracuse ’93

1993

Before the backpack

City · Sicily · 37.0755° N · 15.2866° E

Sicily's ancient east coast, reached by a train that rolled onto a ferry.

Journeys

Italy by Train 1993

1993

Before the backpack: by train from home to Venice, down through Florence, Rome, Naples and Sicily — crossing the Strait of Messina by train-ferry both ways — and back.