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May is the most beautiful month of the year in Prague, but this year I took two little side trips, each four days each: one to Calabria, Italy, and one to Reykjavik, Iceland. And the weather was pretty close to perfect in all three destinations.
This month also included quite a lot of writing in between those two trips, and entertaining two very clingy cats (Murray is curled around the keyboard as I type this, wanting all the pets and snuggles).
I also made one of my biggest travel blunders in quite some time. Let’s take a look at May 2022!
Destinations Visited
Prague, Czech Republic
Catanzaro Lido, Guardavalle, Aspromonte National Park, Siderno, Scilla, Reggio Calabria, Tropea, Pizzo, and Gizzeria Lido, Italy
Reykjavík, Iceland
Highlights
Visiting my 19th and second-to-last region in Italy: Calabria! Charlie and I had a lovely weekend in Calabria and got to see quite a few places within the region.
My first impressions? Calabria was rough. Rougher in some ways than Sicily. Highway hedges so tall and unkempt that you couldn’t see past them. Google would try to send you down roads that didn’t exist. Everything was cheap cheap cheap.
We spent the first two nights at an agriturismo near the Ionian Coast, and got to see some of the towns along the sea. This part of Calabria is lesser developed and seems barely touched by international tourism. We got to have some great lunches with homemade pasta, including one eggplant parmigiano pasta that absolutely rocked my world.
Next up, we headed to the Tyrrhenian Coast, which has a lot more tourism with towns like Tropea, Pizzo, Scilla, and Reggio Calabria. The coastline here is spectacular, with clear bright water and soft sand beaches. Many of the towns are built atop cliffs looking down over the sea.
Tropea is the big resort town of Calabria, and this was the highlight: built on tall cliffs with gorgeous beaches, some nice restaurants, and a lovely atmosphere for much cheaper than more popular Italian beach towns.
Overall, I would say that I’m glad to have visited Calabria, and I especially enjoyed Tropea and Pizzo, but I don’t feel the overwhelming love for the region as a whole that I feel for, say, Puglia or Emilia-Romagna or Umbria.
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