One thing I had to do whilst in Calabria was grab my laptop and IPad and head down to the beach to do a live recording at sunset. You can't help being inspired by your surroundings
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Day 23 - Visiting relatives
It's obligatory whenever I come to Calabria that I have to visit the relatives, but there are too many to visit, but you try and fit in what you can. One advantage is that you are always invited for lunch or dinner, which equals heaps of fantastic food. Unfortunately no photos :-(
Day 25 - Time to head back...
... To Siena of course. I could post up more beach photos and stunning scenery, but instead here is the car I drove around for 4 days. It may be a base model Fiat 500, but it was still fun to drive :-)
Day 21 - Scappare
Translation: to escape. Which is exactly what I did from Siena, got on a plane to go back to Calabria for a couple of days, and by looking at the picture below you can see why I came back
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Day 20 - Race day
Finally the day has arrived where the whole town is awaiting a horse race that only lasts about 1 minute and 14 seconds. If you have to summarise what is the Palio, my professor told me this quote, "The Palio is not important because it's old, it's old because it's important"
Day 19 - Buon Ferragosto
The 15th August is a public holiday here in Italy, and it's a day where most Italians will go to the beach as it's summer, but not the Senesi (people from Siena). There is the trial race in the morning and evening, where I missed out on getting into the piazza in the morning, but had a great spot for the evening race just after the first corner, and this race is just as busy as the real thing. Unfortunately I was taking photos from my cameras and not my phone, so nothing to upload, but I did sneak in this photo of a big contrada dinner
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