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We’re leaving Calabria and headed home. We had a nice farewell chat with our guide, Luca. He’s from Calabria and he deeply loves his home region. His summary helped me process and focus on a few things we saw on the trip. He says that Puglia – the first region we toured – was “discovered” […]

We’re wrapping up our Road Scholar tour down in Catanzaro. We’ve got one more day and then I’m back in charge, shepherding us home via a complicated route that seemed like a great idea back in November. The benefit of the tour is definitely all of the fun stops we get to make. We took […]

We have left Matera and headed to Calabria for the final leg of our trip. Before we left Matera, though, we took at quick trip down into the massive cistern that sits on Matera’s main square. It dates from the 1500s and was forgotten over time. It was completely abandoned by 1920 and then not […]

Our last couple of hotels have been ones that I would never choose on my own and that always makes for harder travel. I’m always wishing for more space, a chair, a window, a little bit of charm. Someone on our tour called me a Princess for those dreams and I guess I can’t argue. […]