Enjoy reading about some of my adventures — mostly in the Catalonia and Calabria regions — and my tips for travel before you embark.
A Promise Made – A Promise Kept
A story that enshrines the enduring love and respect Dorothy Nuzzi Strangis had for her mother, Catarina Capobianco, who married for love twice, and for her father, Francesco Nuzzi, who made a promise to an unknown woman thousands of miles away – and kept it.
It’s not every day that you are able to visit the site where six men were devoured by a monster. Nor swim beneath the cliff where the monster lived. Or at least where someone we call Homer placed the story 2,700 years ago.
With no refrigeration in Puigcerda, a mile-and-a-half walk to the French town of Bourg-Madame was needed. The adventure was highlighted by an overzealous Spanish border guard, holding a sub-machine gun, who berated us in Catalan for walking on the wrong side of the road.