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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. […]

Matera has been continuously settled since the 10th century BC – making it pretty much the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the world. The Sassi di Matera are what draw the crowds. They are cave dwellings from a prehistoric troglodyte community. They look like this as you approach: And like this: Here’s a courtyard area […]