Hotel San Francesco Paola
Via Della Timpa Paola, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy
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Scalea and the memories
Since i didnt have any Electricity i couldnt keep the travelblog up while i was there. but i will add some pictures. Scalea is a beautiful place, with amazing seafood, wine and limocello. People are openminded and polite.
So Scalea is a beautiful and hidden place you one day should see an ...
Now-Birra!
Well the morning has come, and it's time for us to move on. We still feel a little groggy from the night's revelry in town, but the prospect of new adventures rouses us out of bed. That, and we've heard there is a market going down just outside the old town, and we are keen to check it out. Leanne and I are suckers for markets, so we break our fast with bread and nutella and head out to check things out. Surprisingly, our host at the hostel recommends ...
Calabria Bella
... yes that old chesnut).
The time comes and I feel that it is just in the nick of time, as I think my stomach is trying to cannibalize itself. We enter the restaurant, and have a most perplexing discussion with the waiter – a different fellow than the one from this afternoon. He informs us in broken English that there isn’t a menu. We try to ask how in fact one gets some food, then draw the conclusion that we have entered the twilight zone and these are all zombies ...
The New Dawn Brings a Change of Heart
... skills no good, so the show is rather poor. I video-taped it anyway, and will try to find a way of getting it up here.
After our morning repast we venture onward to figuratively get 'lost in the city’, and end up quite actually lost in one of the many winding back-alleys. A smart bit of map-reading later, and we are no closer to finding a way out, so we put our heads together and come up with a stroke of genius – the old maze-solver’s method of ...
The Ghost-el (get it? You will)
... a fab job, but the PR department need to step up their game and actually put a few backpackers in those beds!
That evening we take a rather early night in, not wanting to venture out and get murdered by one of the local creeps, and figure we will need our strength to make it make to the train station tomorrow morning. Screw the deposit on our second booked night, we are totally not staying ...


