The 19' Fiat:
compact, comfortable
and all the necessities...
First day out: stopped
at many seaside towns
including Anzio,
made famous in WWII
Sperlonga, the first of
many nights parked
by the sea
First 'tourist stop':
Herculanium,
an amazing place
Streets and more than
40 buildings still intact
A dining room
A house exterior
This was a cafe
The ferry to Capri
First stop:
The Blue Grotto
Looking down from the top
Another great view
A 'typical' Capri Villa
Another one
Just a beautiful view
Returning to Sorrento
The Marina Piccolo
of Sorrento
A long climb
up to the town
Another night
on the coast
The beach at Pizzo
That's me reading
on the beach
First crack at
the Tyrrhenian Sea
First view of Sicilia
from the mainland
Taormina (Greek
Theatre in background)
Walking through Taormina
First night in Sicily:
Charming Brucoli
Brucoli at night -
Fishing boats returning
Drinks with neighboring
camper from Germany
Apollo's Temple
in Siracusa
See the town
through the temple
The market in
Ortigia, Siracusa
A film being made
The senate in Ortigia
Peace signs everywhere
I call this the Peaceria
Pleistocene Dwarf
Elephant skeleton
in the Siracusa Museum
A lovely statue
from 500 BC
A night fisher
for anchovies
Margara Iblea:
One of the oldest
Greek settlements
A night spent
inland:
Piazza Amerina
The view in the
morning
Mosaic floor
at the Villa Romana
More floor
The gymnasium floor
and the hunting room
Moving west past Agrigento
And another shot
A long road SW
to the sea
Next stop: Porto Palo
on the south coast
The beach is named
Lido di Fiori
for obvious reasons
Our self-proclaimed
visitors' guide:
Giacomo Tarentela
West Coast:
a boatyard in Marsala
The salt fields
north of Marsala
Sferrocavalo,
North of Palermo
Great hiking -
and resting
The Duomo in Cefalu
east of Palermo
And the lido
Back to the mainland
A night on the
Golfo di Taranto
Cave dwellings
in Massafra, Puglia
Cliff dwellings in
Matara, Basilicata
Santa Barbara, a rock
church in Matara
Outside view of
Santa Barbara
Albanian Village Ururi
Vincenzo Pedone,
resident of Ururi
in his living room
Before the Corso
annual chariot race
The red team
and the bull
Getting Set
Nearing the finish
Ururi Farmland
Fossacesia, coastal stop
The Gargano Peninsula
on the Adriatic
A street in Termoli
Adriatic Net Fishing
A park in Abruzzi
on the way back to Rome
Another view
Preparing the last
meal on the road
and the last night
in the camper