12 Sep 2022
This was a tour of the Costa Viola, however as we were the only English people, the rest being Italian, all the information was in Italian. Being able to understand some Italian, I passed on what I could gather to my husband and son, which was basically all about fishing and specifically for swordfish, including quotas, and the areas that the Sicilians were allowed compared with the Calabrians. At one point the boat was stopped for half an hour whilst the Italians discussed swordfish, their price per kilo, fishing for them,etc. It was also paused at one point to watch teenage boys attempt to jump off some perilous rocks by Scilla castle. We could easily have been witnesses to an awful accident. Twice the boat had to be started with a screwdriver in the engine, which greatly concerned my engineering student son who was right by the action! My husband said it was the worst boat trip he had ever been on.