We arrived off Siracusa early Sunday morning and as Siracusa is such a very special place we made a small diversion to let John and Cathy have a couple of hours ashore to see the old centre of Ortigia and especially the Duomo and the Church of Santa Lucia with Caravaggio’s wonderful painting of her burial. Continuing on our way we made the crossing to the foot of Italy - a very busy shipping area with boats heading into and coming from the Messina Straits as well as travelling along the coast to/from the Adriatic. Quite a few course alterations required to keep us clear (our Rules of the Road are to try and stay well out of everyone else’s way!). As well as the normal cargo ships, ferries, fishing boats and passenger liners, we had a submarine and a warship for company in this area - probably there because of the G7 summit at Taormina.