Camping Behaviour in Sant’ Andrea
20/04/18 – 22/04/18 Sometimes writing a blog that’s a couple of weeks in the past is a bit of a slog. Take today for instance, we have had a big… Read more »
Category: Italy
Beeping Italians
19/04/18 Our parking spot to the south of San Cataldo had been noisier than we expected. We thought we had chosen a good place as far from the town as… Read more »
Golden Stone and a Long History
18/04/18 Lecce is a golden city, famed for it’s soft Lecce stone that has allowed master crafters to create ornate baroque masterpieces on all it’s glowing buildings. The stone is… Read more »
Watching the Fishermen
16/04/18 – 17/04/18 The weather seemed to have suddenly turned a corner, we had gone from cool breezy spring days to warm and muggy almost overnight. It was the sort… Read more »
Finding Feral Trulli
13/04/18 – 15/04/18 The Valle d’Itria is a wide shallow depression that runs from north-west to south-east through the limestone heart of Puglia, roughly between the latitudes of Bari and… Read more »
Volare ooh oh, Cantare oh-oh-oh-oh
09/04/18 – 12/04/18 It took a bit of google action to discover that the song ‘Nel blu dipinto di blu’ was that song. We had been prompted into a google search… Read more »
Anticipating An Arrival
08/04/18 We were very, very excited because today was the day my sister and her two bambini were due to arrive to join us for a short break. But we… Read more »
Troglodyte Living in Matera
05/04/18 – 07/04/17 Matera; a city soon to be European Capital of Culture (poor Plovdiv is sharing the accolade in 2019 but seems likely to be overshadowed), famed for it’s… Read more »
A Brief Trip to Some More Greek Ruins
05/04/18 We left our sosta by the sea and headed along the comfortable main road – the SS106 – on our way to Matera. Following our trip to Paestum we… Read more »
A Chorus of Frogs and Owls
04/04/18 When we got on our bikes the following morning it was with the intention of heading east and exploring the nearby WWF nature reserve. But first of all we… Read more »
In Search of Gas
03/04/18 Today didn’t go exactly to plan. We drove to Camigliatello Silano during the morning expecting to have at least one night here to do some further walking, but when… Read more »
Buona Pasqua! Buona Pasquetta!
01/04/18 – 02/04/18 We settled into our campsite at Lago Arvo waiting for the predicted snow to arrive. The temperature got gradually colder and the snow started to fall in… Read more »
Black Squirrels in La Sila
30/03/18 – 31/03/18 It might seem like we’re doing the Hokey-Cokey with our regular alternation between coast and inland. It was time to put our left leg in and move… Read more »
Stuck on a Rock
29/03/18 Our next stop was Le Castella, known – strangely enough – for it’s castle that sits on a spur of land connected to the mainland by a narrow land… Read more »
Seahorses and Sunshine
28/03/18 It’s was a first for us. We had completely forgotten what we did on this day. Normally we keep a diary of the events of each day. Nothing over… Read more »
A Small Town with a Big Cathederal
26/03/18 – 27/03/18 After being on the coast for a while we decided to head inland. The town of Gerace was chosen mostly because of it’s location rather than any… Read more »
The Disappearing Roads of Bruzzano
24/03/18 – 25/03/18 We had ended up here – near the village of Canalello and Ferruzzano station – unexpectedly so we had no plans and knew nothing about the area…. Read more »
Snow Forces a Rethink
23/03/18 After the rainy days stuck in the campsite we were keen to get out and about. Our aim was to head to Gambarie, a key town in the Aspromonte… Read more »
All Hands to the Dumps
20/03/18 – 22/03/18 It had been some time since we last did any washing. Our washing bag was filled to bursting and we hadn’t come across any convenient self service… Read more »
Not Only Onions in Tropea
19/03/18 As we drove into Tropea, passing a number of vegetable selling stalls on the side of the road, I finally remembered why I recognised the name. We had recently… Read more »