Tarsia – Siderno

33rd day

I’ll tell you that last night was quite surreal 🤔. I told you yesterday that we went to bed before 11:00 PM, everything was perfect, the silence had already taken over the village and it seemed like it was going to be a calm and perfect night when suddenly at midnight a group of young guys appeared, we don’t know if they were drunk or not because we didn’t go out to check… but we were about to call the “carabinieri”.
The kids, if we can call them that, around twenty years old, started playing football, kicking the ball against the door of the fish market next door, which echoed like cannons in the middle of a battle, until two in the morning. I’ve already told you that we didn’t leave the camper because it seemed like they were looking for trouble and we weren’t in the mood for stories, but they kept us up all night.
It’s a shame because the village is beautiful and supposedly quiet, and the service they provide to those of us who arrive with our little house is impeccable, but it doesn’t make up for the scare they gave us during those two hours they were causing chaos in the early morning 😔.
To make matters worse, this morning at 6:00 AM, street vendors started arriving at the square and setting up their stalls to the point that we decided to leave before they blocked our way. The fishmonger, a shoe stall, and another miscellaneous hardware stall… the three motorhomes that spent the night were shocked by the situation, we looked at each other as if suddenly the world had gone mad, and coincidentally, between last night’s party and today’s market, we didn’t get much sleep 😐.
Having left so early, Thorqui and I arrived very quickly in Siderno, our next destination. Since it’s next to the beach, I went to sunbathe for a while because Thorsten went to look for snow and took a while to come back.

The Calabrian Apennines are the section of the mountain range located in the Calabria region and extend to the Strait of Messina. Their route has taken them to the Sila National Park, a journey of about 150 km of wild forest and incredible scenery, and as if that wasn’t enough, they continued climbing to the Monteoscuro Valley, an important mountain pass with an altitude of about 1,618 meters where, of course 🤦‍♀️, they ended up again with snow up to their knees, and T needed almost an hour to get Beast out of the mess he had gotten it into.

His thing with the snow is starting to get dangerous 🤣, I’ve already told him that when we return to Spain he should get it checked out because it’s not normal that this has happened to him twice during this trip… and of course, he arrives home exhausted because Beast weighs more than two hundred fifty kilograms, which doesn’t feel heavy when you’re on it, but if you have to pull it out from a pile of snow… you can imagine.

We had cocktail salad with shrimp for dinner, very tasty and it was very appealing because it was super pleasant weather, plus the other day we bought a pot with a lettuce and since it was planted, it was super fresh 🥬.
We haven’t done much else except sit and watch the trains go by 😃. Today’s camping is located between a train track and the main road… it’s peculiar, but the owners are very nice.

Good night… I’ll keep telling you 😘