Rocca Nettuno Tropea

... comfortable. The breakfasts were delicious, comprised of home made cake, bread and biscuits. The biscuits were wood fired by a bakery just down the road. Supplied jams were again made by the hosts (Fig, Apricot and Apple and Peach); apple juice was also home made although the yogurt was not! During the breakfast Shellie had a wood fired oven at her back; so getting moving after breakfast was a bit of a challenge. Eating home produced food was inspiring me ...

... she's settled in quite nicely. I had asked her to keep some time free to travel with me to Sicily to meet my (her) relatives, so this entry is the first part of the trip where we travel down through southern Italy on our way to Sicily. Giuliana and I set off south and as you would know by now I generally have no particular plan or agenda. My cousin Gianluca has recommended we visit the Tremiti islands about 2/3rds of the way down Italy's Adriatic coast but we miss the ...

... the camera doesn't really convey the sense of scale... ...although it does frame the cars nicely... ...especially my faithful servant, four years old at the start of this month and still going strong.

... as they were having a dinner party with their neighbors, who also had guests staying with them...so it was a big dinner with Italians, French and Americans, with a mix of languages being spoken. It was lots of fun, and the food was, of course, amazing! We were still getting used to the long meals with lots of food. At home, a long dinner is a couple hours. And Sunday was filled with eating, almost a whole day of eating ...

... avons mangé à l'haut de la montagne et eu beaucoup d'amusement à cause du joueur de guitare avec des dreadlocks. J'ai skié juste le plus loin que j'ai dû et puis pris la remontée mécanique. Quand nous sommes retourné chez nous, nous avons mangé des chiche-kebabs et je m'ai cochée en avance parce que j'ai dû de prendre une autobus à Florence à 6h00 la matin prochaine.

... la dîner. J'ai fait une razzia sur les réduits de Maria pour une panoplie. Les garçons me sont pris à 20h00. Le meilleur sentiment toujours est d'avoir tous les garçons qu'on passe te jette un coup d'oeil. Nous avons retrouvé le reste de la classe et sommes allés à une pizzeria. En Italie, quand on commande de la pizza, on reçoit une pizza entière. Et on mange les ...

Alors, je pense que j'ai eu assez voyage pour pas mal des temps. Le vol de Toronto à Paris était très longue. Et je n'ai pas dormi du tout. Les Français sans aucun doute n'ont pas donné une première impression bonne. Ils étaient vraiment impoli et nous étions contents de partir la France. Le vol de Paris et Rome était très beau. J'aurais dormi mais je n'aurais pas arreté de regarder ...

Eh eh ! Back on the snow! As unforgettable time with Sophie...Isola 200, here we come ! Early morning wake up..direction Isola 2000, what a best way to spend the last day of 2007 than go for some skying! Early arrival and got to say that this was probably the best day to go for some skying! nearly no one, fresh snow and an amazing blue sky! Looking forward to more skying!

... would help in the Hunt for the La Praia Hotel. Based on the scrap of map that was provided in the printout we first search the area by the sea and after a series of deep 180 turns heading downhill we reached the sea area of Tropea only to find that alas, no La Praia Hotel was located there. We did manage to find a nice marina and a scary camping ground though. So back up the hill and into the town itself and after an ...

... to do without knowing what to get. It was pretty good too! Then it was a cooked lunch and a siesta before a drive to the larger town in the area called St-Martin-Vesubie, first stopping for a beautiful view over St Dalmas. It was a beautiful old town although much busier and touristy than St Dalmas. It also had a medieval old town, with a little paved channel of water that runs the whole way down the steeply inclined street. Known as gargouille, this is a ...