Italy

[ July, 2015 ] Rabarama is the pseudonym of the sculptor of this work. When you walk along the promenade in Reggio di Calabria in southern Italy, you will never fail to see this. Not…

[ July, 2015 ] In Reggio di Calabria in southern Italy, there is a promenade called Lungomare Falcomata. We had a walk here together with a great many local people in an evening. First, we…

[ July, 2015 ] This is the profile of Kouros in the museum in Reggio di Calabria, in Italy. According to the curator, this one is as valuable as the Bronzes of Riace, from Greece, in…

[ July, 2015 ] If you ask someone from Calabria what you should see there, he or she would say “The Bronzes of Riace”. These are the statues found by a diver, who was diving…

[ July, 2015 ] The highlight of Stilo, in Calabria in southern Italy, is Cattolica, a small chapel. The shape looked like one of those Orthodox churches we saw in Macedonia or somewhere. The curator…

[ July, 2015 ] One of the other places we wanted to go to in Calabria in southern Italy was a town called Stilo, which is on the slope of a mountain. We looked up…

[ July, 2015 ] Calabria, in Italy, is famous for producing bergamot orange. Bergamot is a kind of citrus fruit, but it cannot be eaten on its own and is used for perfumes and tea. There…

[ July, 2015 ] The book we bought in Locri, in southern Italy, talked about a small inland town called Gerace, which made me want to visit there. So we waited for the infrequent local bus. Apparently,…

The day we went to Locri, in southern Italy, was a hot day. I was thirsty so we went to a bar within the station and ordered Crodino (a non-alcoholic drink). The middle aged man…