This is the view from the back balcony of the B&B I just got to in the small fishing town of Scilla. Granted, it was a bit of a hike (ok, it was awful, 2 miles uphill and no one was there when I arrived), but it was worth every aching step.
I'm staying an extra night. I actually did a crazy happy dance as soon as I saw the view.
Scilla is named for the famous monster of Greek mythology that turned from a beautiful nymph into the beastly 6 headed sea monster called Scylla, hence the name of the town. The giant rock in the picture on the right in the rock of Scilla, in essence, the sea creature. The origin of the phrase, between "a rock and a hard place", it was nearly impossible for sailor to navigate this narrow straight between the rock of Scilla (one sea monster) and the rock of Charybdis (the other sea monster). Getting too close
to one rock meant you would hit the other rock and so on and so on. The town in situated just north of the colder water straits of Messina, which means it enjoys more favorable water temperatures in the summer - about two hours from Sicily (or Sicilia in Italian, just to make things even more confusing), Scilla is a huge beach destination like Tropea.Just a little bit more interesting history. Who doesn't love a good sea monster story??
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