My plan was vague again, roughly head to Reggio and get the ferry to Sicily.
The road around the coast took me out from under the damp grey clouds and into warm sunshine. For the first time on this trip, I actually started to feel warm!
Town after town lies along the coast, very Italian. They vary from utter shit hole to up and coming tourist town. This section of Italy's coast though is like the Spanish coast before they butchered it with holiday hotels in the 80's/90's. It is showing signs of going that way, but not yet.
Inland is all olive farms, vinyards and fruit. I saw a few large herds of sheep too, complete with protective dogs.
Lunch was a lazy one, on another nameless beach sandwiched between small towns. Sliced Chinguila, (Wild Boar) seasoned with spices and dried. Alongside Toma Piedmontesa cheese and local bread. Rounded off with a fresh coffee from the Landy stove. Happy days!
There are some pretty serious hills inland, ofter with stunning granite faces or towers. It would be interesting to learn a bit more about the climbing, plus the roads that run N to S on this peninsula look fabulous for a motorbike.
After finding out the Reggio port is lorries only, I eventually found my way to the Villa San Giovanni port. This was very random. The tickets are 38 euro one way for a 20 minute trip. Once you have your ticket, you drive through town to the load point. The traffic is nuts, the signage sparse and it was more guesswork than navigation that got me there.
Sicily shone brightly across the bay, with a storm warning for heavy rain hanging over it too.
After sitting in the Landy for the short crossing, it was off easily into Messina. I headed to the north coast for a beach park up, which was a very short trip. My first conversation was in English to a Sri Lankan lad who had lived here for 20 years now! Tomorrow is heavy rain, thunderstorms and easterly winds, so it'll be a hunker down somewhere kind of day I suspect.
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