Olive trees, vineyards, Mediterranean scrub, millennial traditions, sweet hills and impervious peaks, the sea that connected Greece and Italy more than 2.000 years ago, two languages (one of which is lost in history and still exists only here). Old Calabria, the undiscovered gem of Southern Italy.
The Bekaa Valley is actually known for it’s vineyards and even has a Marian shrine called Our Lady of the Wine (or Our Lady of Bekaa) that overlooks Bekaa.
Olive trees, vineyards, Mediterranean scrub, millennial traditions, sweet hills and impervious peaks, the sea that connected Greece and Italy more than 2.000 years ago, two languages (one of which is lost in history and still exists only here). Old Calabria, the undiscovered gem of Southern Italy.
After spending a day under the blazing Moroccan sun in Agadir less than twelve hours prior to our arrival in Lanzarote, I was optimistic that the good weather would have followed us back to the Canary Islands; it wasn’t to be. I awoke early to heavy rain pounding on my cabin window, and in the hope that it would stop by the time I left for the final shore excursion on my Thomson Colourful Coasts…
