Day 2- Thursday 28 June

Today was base day; there are two naval (not army, apparently it's insulting to call a navy base an army base) bases on Sicily, seven miles apart. One seems to be where most people work and has the exciting things like the hospital and aeroplanes and drones on it, and the other is more domestic and has housing and the Navy Exchange (it looked like Dillard's to me) and is where we did laundry (coincidentally our neighbourhood/town lost water for half the day) and got groceries and a bit of internet. It was a weird place, they use American money so mere carries dollars and euros all the time, and there were a lot of families and fit people in different uniforms and the architecture was American-ish, here's the road to one of the bases (two-way traffic with no lanes marked, standard):

 A bit of the airport on base, you can juuuuuust make out a bit of one of the unmanned planes by the right building:

 Some of the second base, apparently people get upset if you take photos so that's all, not wickedly exciting:

Also there was a cat in the house when we were closing it up, that was fun.