Giorgio was a fantastic host. He took us on a night tour to Mondello, a little seaside town just outside Palermo (it's probably a suburb of Palermo, to be accurate) full of big lovely houses, and a sort of midway or boardwalk with restaurants and amusements and street vendors. Across from this midway was the beach...it was so nice to see ocean! Well, sea. There were lots of lovely white fishing boats ,decorated in bright orange and royal blue, parked on the shore. I asked Giorgio if fishing was a big industry...apparently, nothing except the, ahem, "laundry" business is big industry in Sicily. I started looking suspiciously at all the gorgeous beachfront villas around us at that point, wondering if some Marlon Brando-ish godfather figure was going to pop out with a machine gun.