We Vote for Taranto

Looking out at Taranto’s Castello in Taranto Vecchia.

Today is election day in Italy and there is no joy whatsoever in the land. You can read all about it (and weep) in this excellent International Herald Tribune editorial by Tim Parks, so I won’t belabor the whole sordid mess here. Instead, we decided to distract ourselves with an outing to nearby Taranto on the Ionian Sea.