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Travel Blogs from Cosenza
A Day in the Life Of An Artist
... a scorpion sitting above my head while I slept.
After having an SAI worker translate my problem to the hotel keeper, the gray-bearded man informed me that scorpions are harmless, and that is is, in fact, good luck to see a scorpion after a day of rain. He advised me to buy a lottery ticket the following day. As amusing as that was, I insisted that it be removed. I didn't believe for one second that it was harmless. A woman next to him rolled her eyes ...
Another fun day!
... and then we still had a 2-3 hour drive. Road construction was everywhere and here when they build a road, they drill through the mountain to make tunnels. We arrived in Cosenza in time for our evening meal at our very nice hotel which has FREE WIFI-- love that! Tomorrow we drive to Bari (sp??) which is quite a distance to board the ferry to GREECE!!!! Will email when I ...
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
Car Travel Day. Thankfully the car has air conditioning. The peak temperature fort today was 33 degrees. Most of our travel was on main auto routes. We passed through several prime agricultural areas. The boot of Italy is very flat. Many fields of fruit trees, market growing, etc. We are now into a hilly region. Finding ...
Bippity Boppitaly
... and of course wine. It's Italy..we had to. :) We went back to the inn and made dinner and hung out with Massimo. It was very difficult to communicate with the locals because in the southern part of Italy, English is not a necessity. There were a lot of hand motions and bippity boppity going around. It was quite funny.
The main thing that attracted us to Lamezia Terme was the beach. It was beautiful! It was rocky and we were ...