Hotel Camping Cecita dul Lago
Travel Blogs from Longobucco
A Day in the Life Of An Artist
... This changed my perspective a bit.
The dinners at Villa della Cupa were interesting. It wasn't your typical Italian pasta dish, or pizza platter. Most of it was homemade mush of some sort. Lentils and beans... exactly the sort of textures I find unappealing. I did, however, enjoy the "chocolate salame". It's not really salame, just chocolate cut like salame slices. It's quite tasty.
Wine was something I was still getting used to. I had a ...
Another fun day!
... line. We had some shopping time before we had lunch at a great restaurant with another fantastic view, Taorima is one of those places you might want on your bucket list! We left after lunch to drive to Messina where we drove our coach onto the ferry to go to the mainland of Italy from Sicily. We floated over the bluest water you can imagine. Our ride was about ...
From one painting to another!
... for supper (I think that's one down from a trattoria). Extremely small, but very welcoming with home style cooking. We had an excellent meal with giant glasses of local wine.
It was about 10:00pm when we started to look for our car. I don't like to admit things like this, but it took about 45 minutes to do so. Clearly, entering a place in the light is different to leaving it in the dark! Anne fortunately smiled all the way! Lovely day.
Regards to all.
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Travel Day - Lecce to Rende
... was a bit of a challenge. Compared to north america there are many small streets and no definite patterns. The GPS works well on the major roads but it is sometimes difficult to find smaller streets. This is complicated by the fact that the convention for naming streets is quite different so it is difficult sometimes to ...
First Leg
... with pasta, pizza, risotto (I made!) chingiale, salami, roasted vegetables and gelati. Not to mention the bottles of Chianti and Montechino's and European beer,all being very cheap local prices as we're in the country.
A day and a half left of leisure in Ripavella until we head to Rome for 4 days and where I prevail and start my solo jaunt. Think of me riding and speeding in a fast EU car, avoiding Italian drivers and eating antipasti until I update next!
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