We also stopped at a "beach".
The last couple of days we've seen fires all over the place. Some of them seem to be where farmers have burnt the remains of the harvested crops (though some of them seem to have gone a bit wild and burnt bush land) but others seem to just be bush fires. Yesterday was over 40 degrees in parts so not too surprising.
We got to Reggio pretty late, and it's amazing how close Sicily is. It makes Rottnest look like a distant land. Only staying the night here though, so won't be able to get over there.
We walked around town for a bit, then ended up at the National Museum here. Inside was the reason I wanted to come down here. On the first floor there was a heap of great Greek artifacts found in the region, but in the basement was the main attraction. The Riace Bronzes (or Riace Warriors, depending which book you read) are a pair of Greek bronze statues more than 2400 years old. They look amazing, considering they were sculpted nearly 2000 years before the Renaissance. You couldn't take photos, but I snuck a couple on my phone.
Reggio itself is a lot nicer than the Lonely Planet book would have you believe. They seemed to say it was just a place to pass through to get to Sicily, but at around 6.30, everyone was out around town in the shopping area which had some ok shops. And there's also this dude.
And a Eucalyptus tree.
We had a drink near the coast, and the sun going through the clouds over Sicily (looked like it had been raining there some of the afternoon) looked amazing.
We bought some food at the supermarket, headed back to the hotel room, and watched TV (finally something in English).
Tomorrow we're heading towards the Amalfi Coast. Probably won't make it all the way as we've been doing a lot of driving the last couple of days, so will probably stop somewhere between here and there.
Signing off...
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