Preview of Everardt's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Matera, Italy Entry Title: "Matera - the city of the Sassi" Entry: "Ciao amici Well, as you know my father is with me. I have to deliver him to Matera, where his oldest sister lives with her family - my cousin Nino, his wife Elisa, and their sons Gianluca and Andrea. Gianluca and his girlfriend, Manuela, spent 2 months with us in Melbourne last year and another 4 months in Sydney and other places, and only returned to Italy in March this year. Gianluca will take Dad over from me and organise for him to go to Ferrara, where he will be picked up by another cousin - sounds like 'pass the parcel', doesn't it? My father's other surviving sister, zia Ciccina, comes with us, so up we drive up through the long foot of Calabria until we reach the turn off for Sibari, which will take us across to the Ionian sea. Pink and white oleander is in flower the length of the freeway and it's sunny and beautiful. The ancient Greek town of Sybaris was a byword for luxury and hedonism (as in a sybaritic lifestyle). We follow the coast for 50kms to Metaponto, then turn inland for the final stretch to Matera, up on it's hill. My aunt lives in an apartment on the heights above the Sassi, the ancient town area where houses, churches, etc were built into the soft, creamy rock (tufa), on the edge of a gorge. When I ...
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