Photo of WARO members attending the International YL 2002 Meet in Palermo, Sicily.

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If anyone has a magnifying glass you would see the moisture on our faces! Hot sunshine and a 30+C temperature greeted us even at the 8.30.am roll call for the Official photos. Not only was there a professional photographer on site, the OMs did their bit too by lining up to take their personal photo shots.
 
We had all been given special sportshirts to wear with the YL2002 Logo. Dark blue for the OMs and two shades of blue for the YLs. What a wonderful souvenir to bring back home. This was not all, many more Sicilian delights awaited us what with Lemonello liqueur, a basket of marzipans made into the colour and shape of fruit, place mats and a scarf - and personalised terracotta plaques were presented to us at the YL Forum - so much to see and to take in.

Ruth IT9ESZ and her team did us proud. Ruth came with us for 3 out of the 5 days tour of Sicily returning by bus to Palermo in time to meet and greet another group of YLs arriving for the weekend.   We had the privilege of being shown her QTH and welcomed by the family with cold drinks - have you ever tasted the juice of blood oranges - fantastic! We also had a peep at the 'shack' where all the hard work had been done.

Cathy ZL2ADK, myself and our OMs had elected to stay at the family run hotel, the Conchiglio D'Oro. In all there were 18 YL2002 participants staying there and we had a 20 minute walk to and from the Hotel La Torre.   Eventually we worked out which free bus to catch! But it was worth it. Terrible footpaths! A wonderful beach at Mondello for swimming, if you could get into the private areas, crowds out at night dining and socialising in the squares.

We invited the YLs back to our 'place' for the Sunday night meal and 50 of the 110 participants took us up on the offer. For 10 Euro, the hotel did us proud. It was a fitting finale to a wonderful event.

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