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DOUBLE CELEBRATIONS WITH TWO ITALIAN FAMILIES
Saturday, 29th October: LOCALS CELEBRATE WITH US IN POMPEII We went over to Pompeii to share our 40th wedding anniversary with our ‘Italian Family’. Again we were taken to Andrea and Antonella’s comfortable house overlooking the town. As Graham walked in bearing the loaf he had bought that morning, Andrea, our host, shouted in […]
TRIVIGNO – EYE TO EYE WITH EAGLES
Monday, 31st October WE CLIMB ABOVE THE CLOUDS This has to be the day when I found myself eye to eye with eagles. In bed that morning I said to Graham: “Remember all those gorgeous small mountains we passed on the way to Pompeii? I marvel each time I see them – particularly […]
TRICARICO – GOOD COUNTRY FOOD – TRADITIONAL CUSTOMS
Tuesday, November 1st: GOURMET FARE – ‘OFF THE BEATEN TRACKS’. We were going on a ‘drive of discovery’ when, close to Tricarico, we happened on this restaurant at 2pm on All Saints Day – another Bank Holiday. We were hungry, but expected to find the door locked. Not a bit of it! […]
ALIANO – CARLO LEVI’S ‘SOUL’ OF ITALY.
Wednesday, November 2nd: ALIANO – OUR LAST DAY OF EXPLORING BASILICATA “If we don’t go today, we’ll never see the little town where Carlo Levi was imprisoned,” I told Graham. “I’ve got to do our packing tomorrow – and there’s quite a lot. We’ve spread ourselves over seven weeks. Apart from clothes […]
