His trailer is available on the camping site “Thurium” – on the East Coast, near the Ionian Sea. Here, in the plain of Sibari, he can cover many tours with the wheel. Only if Italy summer holidays makes, Hesse’s going home and looking forward to the peace and quiet that retracts into the postseason. Petermann is an instance. He could earn an extra income as tour guide.

Many Germans and Italians know him – also on the adjacent square “Onda Azzurra”, which is fully in German hands outside the high season. Since the ZDF made a film about how here German campers enjoy the winter months to the fullest, the popularity is undiminished. Petermanns favorite places lie in the Pollino National Park, whose highest Gipfel puts it in 2267 m. In a half hour, Civita is to achieve one of the Albanian villages in the mountains. Its location is reminiscent of an Eagle’s nest 450 meters above sea level. In the village, the community of Italo-Albanians in wide variety preserved their cultural identity. After their escape from the reign of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, they founded numerous towns in Calabria, many in the Pollino.

There was a hit list of cleanest places in Italy, this Albanian village would probably win the race. A tourist Attraction has to offer, which runs through the Pollino massif on the 30 km long and empties into the Ionian sea with the Raganello River Valley. Since the 1998 collapsed Ponte rebuilt del diavolo, the Devil’s bridge from Roman times, this place is a must. The descent from Civita on many steep stone stairs in the Gorge and the bridge can stretch out a pleasant circular walk. Who loves very adventurous can join in a canyoning tour on the side of a mountain guide of the Raganello River walk. The Valley narrows upstream on 13 kilometers up after San Lorenzo Bellizzi to a Canyon, the line some 800 meters high rock walls.