Carolei Travel Guide

 mapakettle Says:  We walked up and down the main street, but I don't recall ever seeing a restaurant. In fact, I don't recall seeing a bar either.Rural Italy, what a hoot. 

 mapakettle Says:  This is a close up of the three wheeled Apes.The driver was a bit annoyed at me taking his picture... 

 mapakettle Says:  Buses run from Amantea to Cosenza very infrequently. If memory serves me correctly, the bus departs about 7:20am, and arrives before 8am. It is used primarily to transport students to University daily, as well as the working stiffs. Tourism is not a very common commodity in... 

 mapakettle Says:  Thousands of meals have been prepared in this outdoor oven. Countless loaves of bread have been baked, chickens roasted by the hundreds, and many pans of lasagna enjoyed by all.Just about everyone in Carolei has been fed at some point or other from this cookhouse, most... 

 mapakettle Says:  Italian children, from birth, are special. Often precocious, often pampered, often spoiled, always loved.Any gathering, whether a wedding, a Christening, church socials, or even simply at meal time, children have a special status. They are the centre of attention, and either... 

 mapakettle Says:  Carolei's town center. A meeting place for all, seniors would sit for hours and pass the day away playing cards, and solve the world's problems.The Municipal Hall was just to the left of this picture. 

 mapakettle Says:  Admittedly, Ma Kettle has very little recollection of this street. Over firty years before, Ma moved to Canada from this exact spot with mother and sister. Her Dad had gone ahead 18 months before, to attempt to carve out a new life for his family.This street remains pretty... 

 mapakettle Says:  This sink is attached to Tessina's house, along with a roll of paper towelling, pencil, hand towel, bars of soap, and of course, a cork screw and bottle opener.I always wanted to install something like this at our home in Canada, but somehow felt it would be out of... 

 mapakettle Says:  Angelo, my father-in-law, was born and raised in this stone house with nine brothers. From the angle from which I took this picture, it looks large, but in fact, the house was longer than it is wide, with very thick stone walls within, and low ceilings.To think that nine... 

 mapakettle Says:  The purpose of this journey to Carolei was to bring Ma Kettle together with her mom and sister, and visit the community they were born in.The house in the field below, without a complete roof, is the home that my mother-in-law was born and brought up.We heard many... 

 mapakettle Says:  The aftermath of recent politics in Carolei.In Canada, posters are stapled to sign boards which are distributed about town, and stuck on lawns, placed in shop windows, or attached to telephone poles.In Padova, huge metal sign boards are purposefully erected for this... 

 mapakettle Says:  If you look carefully at the stone building, you'll see holes in the walls. The scaffolding supports were built right into the wall as the building was constructed. As the height of the building increased, the supports were removed, and placed at higher intervals.The inside... 

 mapakettle Says:  Carolei is a typical southern Italian hillside town. People who are born here, are often descendants of citizens who walked these same streets hundreds of years before.Often these same people will remain in the very house that they played as children in. The little girl down...