EvainSicily

Eating an arancino on the ferry when you come to Sicily.What else?   This is our WELCOME to all the people coming from the Continent by sea. (Old people still refer to the rest of Italy as the Continent!) This is enough to me to refuse to buil tthe bridge on the Straits.. In the rest of Italy there are different version, not always successful, of the Sicilian arancino. Here the Calabrese version: arancino with 'ntuja *..(quite good) *ntuja is the traditional salmi produced in Calabria, very soft and very spicy made with hot chili pepper. The word ntuja comes from the French Andouille which means sausage Buon appetito! --------------------------------------   Mangiare l'arancino sul traghetto è una tradizione anche per noi Siciliani. E' considerato il miglior benvenuto per  chi ci raggiunge dal Continente (è così che gli anziani  ancora chiamano il resto d'Italia) Questo  già per me basterebbe per non far costruire il ponte... Nel r...

near Gioia tauro in Calabria

just the beginning...appena l'inizio Annemary?s zeppolette, quick mozzarelline,balck tartine,delicious rollers, almonds balls,coloured cheese.. Grandama...& pizze! Calabrese Zuccotto: Russian salad covered with smoked salmon almonds little balls(maybe! I forgot!!) Cotechino(Italian Pork sausage), lentls and potatoes fresh panettone stuffed with cherry & yellow cream look and taste! before the cake - Matri che confusione!! a wonderful  Happy New Year cake, about 8 kg- THANKS ANNAMARIA and this is Celste's menu , with all the other good food I didn't catch in my pictures.. BUON ANNO TO ALL OF YOU

Bridge or not bridge..anyway, just crossing the Straights, in Calabria you find a marvellous mountain, The Sila . There's la grande Sila (and Villaggio Palumbo is a delicious area) and la piccola Sila (Camigliatello is the most touristic place there). If you want relax and have nice walking, escaping from  the city life...that's what we can do .No flight..just 4 or 5 hours by car from the south east of Sicily and you forget all!!! n.b. Pecccato !  the highway Salerno - Reggio Calabria is always under construction ..or better to say under riconstruction  and you take more time than you really need!!!