We’ve moved a fair bit further north to a free sosta near Lago Sorino in Basilicata. Sadly we’ve left Calabria behind without having a really good local meal or buying any njuda – the Agricamper food was good but a bit dull, if I’m honest. First we circumnavigated the little lake slowly, with a long…

What a day of disasters! It started well though – we set off for a walk from our lovely camping spot among the fields of violets. I’ve seen purple ones (obviously) and white ones, but never yellow. But less than a kilometre into our planned walk, the path was blocked by a stream in high…

It wasn’t a great start to the day when we both woke with a slight dose of Tan Tan Tum. Still, nothing too serious, and after a supermarket shop, our first touristing was at Tavola Palatine just outside Metaponte. This was an Ionic temple to Hera, built in the fifth century BC and is a…

We took Flynn for a walk along the coast. Today the wind has dropped a bit and there were even some yachts at sea. Yacht Is that a spinnaker? (No.) Jones was now dangerously in need of servicing, it being nearly a week since our last one, and the water was at 15%. We’d tried…

We spent a peaceful night on the olive grove despite the orange winds. It’s a lovely place, and we had it all to ourselves for €10, wifi included. Fabio didn’t turn up for the promised Italian / English lesson at 5 am, whew. The forecast was for rain for most of the morning, so we…

This morning it was sunny at the bauxite mine, contrary to the weather forecast, which I’m beginning to think should be called the weather randomiser. We took a slightly limping Flynn for the short walk to peer over at the red walls of the open cast mine. Bauxite was discovered here in 1935, but only…

Olives After a dog walk through the olive groves, we parked up in the marina car park of Vieste, right next to this boat. Something makes me think the owner’s not over fond of it. Looks lovely to me Motorhomes are not really allowed in most of Vieste, and especially not on the marina parking,…

Sunshine! Our walk among the salt marshes and eel fishermen was much more photogenic, although the mosquitoes were an unwelcome addition. We also got a much closer view of the flamingoes.   Eel fishing is a long tradition in the Po delta. The eels were caught in these barriers between October and December, and then transported to the…