- Ancient sites
- Art
- Day trips
- Entering France
- Festivals
- Fond Farewells
- Food
- Food markets
- Forests-Mountains-Streams
- French B&Bs
- French Chateau
- French Churches
- French Cities
- Friends joining us
- Gardens
- Getting to know the locals
- good beach – sea views
- Guided tours
- Hop on-Hop off
- Italian B&Bs
- Italian Festivals
- Italian Hairdressers
- Italian long stay
- Italian Towns
- Learning to cook the Italian way
- Local History
- Medical Emergencies
- Mountain Roads
- MUSEUM VISITS
- Pretty villages
- Restaurants
- Tourist Town
- Travel
- Travelling through
- Uncategorized
- Visiting friends
FAST-CHANGING BASILICATA – WE SEARCH AND RECORD IT
24th – 28th October: FAST-CHANGING BASILICATA – TRACKING IT KEEPS GRAHAM BUSY We decided we must spend more time finding the rich, ever-evolving history in fast-changing Basilicata. In this period we did a lot of driving and walking around our immediate area. Graham wanted to get a real ‘feel’ for that part of Basilicata. […]
MORE MATERA – THE IMPORTANCE OF DONKEYS
26th October: MY BELATED BIRTHDAY PRESENT. There was so much more Matera to explore. This was the day we went back to do just that, and Graham bought a piece of art. We’d both been going back to admire it ever since we took that ‘taxi’ trip around the Sassi with Lolly. […]
FERRANDINA – CITY OF VULTURES AND BANDITS
27th October FERRANDINA – CITY OF VULTURES AND BANDITS Carlo Levi described Ferrandina as a hangout for vultures and bandits. That was in 1936, when he was taken there as a political prisoner. Presumably still so in 1947 when ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’, his book on the area, was published in English. […]
HAIRDO IN BASILICATA
I NEED A HAIRDO My hairdo had disappeared. Once-well-trimmed locks had reached that ‘straggly’length, below my chin but above my shoulders. It didn’t seem to matter when we were just driving around explorig the area. But now, suddenly, it did. We had already been told that we MUST go over to Pompeii on the […]
