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…

We dithered about stopping another night on the agritourismo. I’m never the most decisive about these things but in the end I did it. Flynn and I went to the Etna Panorama whilst Jane interacted with the local horse.Then off to the only real reason we came this far south. The Riace Bronzes. First though…

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…

The weather is getting hotter so whilst we walked Flynn south along the beach we hummed and hawed about staying another night. We almost did – it would;d have been our first two night stop this month but, in the end we decided we’d get bored looking at the sea for a whole day. We…

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…

Our stop today is Matera. It has some claim to be one of the oldest continually inhabited places on earth. The town of this name (actually Matheola) was founded in 251 BCE by the Roman Republic when they were on their way to subduing Sicily. The town is built around a steep y shaped valley…

We took Flynn for a walk along the coast. Today the wind has dropped a bit and there were even some yachts at sea. 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 to call in at a service…

We decided to stay on in the car park in Otranto for breakfast and a wander round the old town. We had some hope of shops being open but everything except the cafes were tightly shut with no sign of opening. Cafes open means coffee and another pasticciotto in a sunny square on the other…