Adria Hotel Bari

... shouldn't have taken the first agent's word for it. Seemed to be ships sailing at all hours - must surely have been one with space on it overnight? Definitely the only way to do this route.However, we get by: but I wouldn't recommend Ventourist line: cheap, for sure; but tacky -very, very tacky!Another night in an anonymous port.<br><br>

... the word), I was pleasantly surprised to find I like his pleasantly charming style.<br><br>I always found the idea of English identity curiously muted, what with its history of Empire juxtaposed, my numerous Indian and Bangla friends, the legal incorporation but cultural separation from the Welsh, Scots, and Northern Irish, its role in American history as the guys we beat up for independence and then rescued from ...

... Dan got a map of Pompeii and we saw like 1/16 of the ruin! I was dissapointed we couldn't see more but Enzo did say that it would take 2 days to see all of the ruin. The bus ride from Pompeii to Bari was a few hours, we stop for a snack/lunch/toilet break after a few hours. Dan and I had a calzone and a drink, we bought some onion pretzels, pepsi and paprika italian pringles for munchies on the ferry.<br> We made the ferry on time ...

The most surprising thing I found before leaving England was that no one even know where Basilicata was! Even friends who thought they knew Italy well weren't aware of Basilicata as its not very well known. On the plane from Stansted, most of the English people we spoke were going on holiday to visit family or friends and most were staying in Puglia, not Basilicata. <br><br>If you're planning to visit Basilicata, you will defintely need ...

Woke up at the Hostel early to a catch our train.<br><br>Took an hour long train to Napoli. In Napoli we had about 45 minutes till our next train, so we decided to get coffee. Apparently here, you go the the register (before you can look at anything) and order what you want. Then you take it to the counter and they give you what you ordered...crazy. Well after 3 attempts each at a ...

This is where Pietro, an old Italian guy, jumped into Bruce and navigated us to the trulli. He saved us from a traffic jam in the narrow streets of Puglia.<br><br>Pete was also called Pietro while in Italy. :-)<br><br>Trullo comes from the Greek word, "tholos" &#8211; meaning &#8220;dome&#8221;. See the pictures of the wee houses.<br><br>We found the Belvedere pub here too - also the name of our local in Aus &#8211; meaning &#8220;beautiful view&#8221;. It was beautiful.

... figure it out, but we did enjoy a local band parading through a beautiful huge park just down the street. We walked around the whole area, but everything was closed. The train was crowded, we were in the back seats on the last car, so felt the rocking. We were going with the train, but at one station they changed tracks and we were sitting backwards. We said good-bye to Elizabeth as she got off at the station before our change train station.

... like only a couple hours. We talked, played cards, wrote, collaged (actually only Allison did this), and I started reading Keroac's "On The Road" aloud to Allison. The book's been on my To Read List for a while now and I figured this was an appropriate time to start it. Even as the train got within half an hour of Bari, we still didn't really have any idea how we were going to get from the Bari train station to the Bari ferry terminal, buy ferry deck tickets and make it to our boat ...