I recently got to take a wonderful journey forty years back in time on this lovely vintage ferry service that connects Sicily to mainland Italy. The Straight of Messina is only a couple kilometers wide and although much discussion has been made over the years of building a proper bridge, the massive earthquake of 1908 that leveled Messina has made the idea controversial and possibly expensive. Meanwhile, the old ferries (this one built in 1969) continue to take passengers, cars, and even trains back and forth. Although less convenient to get back and forth than a modern bridge would be, the ferry service definitely has a whole lot of character.
Watching one of the trains disembarking from the front of the ferry was very surreal. It just seemed like it shouldn't really fit in there! Once on the mainland, we took a train north to a small beach in the town of Scila and swam in the warm waters and looked back across the straight at the island of Sicily. All for just a few euros...
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