Who amongst us doesn’t like a few more photos of Ferraris?
I have been playing around with a few of the filters and presets in Lightroom and these are the results of being creative with a few other shots from Matera.
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
Matera is an ancient town in Southern Italy, quite a drive from Sicily so a few nights here to rest up. Rest up means, keep the kilometre count to under ten a day.
The hills and steps never end here but we made our way around the town visiting underground houses, above ground churches, underground churches, museums and the like. An interesting town.
We had to get out of the way of a Ferrari driving down a narrow street, then another and another. Eventually over 100 of the sleek beasts drove by, parked and were smudged by the likes of us. They are on a round trip in Puglia for the 70th anniversary of Ferrari. I think we’ll come across them again.
After managing to find a dodgy You Tube upload of the State of Origin; we had to watch it with the laptop turned sideways; we hits the streets happy in the evening for another circuit.
Just thought I’d add one more taken outside a supermarket near the apartment –
Agrigento, Sicily
Two and a half thousand years ago, the Valley of the Temples was a Greek city, and the ruins drew us to Agrigento on the southern coast of Sicily.
Me writing about ruins is like talking about music, so I will allow the photographs to say a few words.
We drove to our accommodation in the old town. We reversed the car out of pedestrian lanes, my head out the window in the rain, leaking downpipes flattening the hat hair on my head, squeezed the car into cobbled passages, backed out of streets that led to stairways, nudged into doorways to allow dented Fiats right of way, performed twenty point turns in dead end streets, had a finger wagged at us which said,”Don’t go down there!” from a lady in a doorway. We did arrive a tad late, but unharmed with a new car still in pristine condition. Now that takes some effort!
That eventing, we watched the sun set over the Valley of the Temples below Agrigento.