Albergo Masseria Refrigerio Brindisi

Destination 399<br><br>[Arrival from Ferry]<br><br>After a night with more than just a fiew hours of sleep on the ferry from Greece, I arrived early in the morning around 7:00am scared facing the heavily industrialized City of Brindisi! The first sight of Italy was not the most charming - hopefully to be changed soon. Therefore, after arrival and one of the quickest Immigragtion check (1 Minute), immediate departure on motorbike to explore more charming places.<br><br>See next entry.

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.

... entire time. We kept getting tickled, and finally Dennis got up, and located another compartment for us.<br><br>There is nothing more relaxing to me than to sit back and watch the world go by, on the train.<br><br>We arrived in Brindisi in just enough time to purchase and board our ferry. The room on the boat was small, but comfortable. We would arrive in Corfu the next morning.

... over 500 years old and ended up at the Adriatic sea! It was absolutely beautiful and i took a ton of pictures for you :) Tonight me and sam are taking a train trip to Rome!!!!!! the train leaves tonight at 9:30 pm and we dont' get there until 6 am tomorrow. We are meeting up with a teacher they had the first week, staying in a hotel and coming back on Sunday. I am so excited!! i will be sure to take lots and lots of pictures. love and miss you all!!

... and dancing in between, it was a lot of fun but took forever! they love to take time at meals. We danced with some really awesome people. Today we were supposed to go to the zoo to see PANDAS but it rained so it was closed, i was bummed but then pino, who owns the hotel, took us to the "White City". it was absolutely beautiful, i've never seen anything like it. i'm having sooo much fun with this group of people, and lovingg every minute of this trip!!

... and flowers! it's amazing. the architecture is beautiful. I havn't done much yet, but some shopping and gelato eating :) We are taking a weekend trip to Rome in a couple weeks and i'm reallyyy excited! i'll put some pictures up soon. oh, and i cut my hair the first night i was here! it's a lot shorter and i have bangs. That's all i can think of for now! Ciao!

... we figured he´d unlikely be going anywhere, so we could still see him if we came here another time!<br><br>We drove down the coast, stopping instead at a tiny little village by the sea, with a stall by the water selling fresh mussels. We bought a couple of kilos and cooked up chilli mussels overlooking the water watching the sun set. Another of our great spots!<br><br>Slightly inland were the villages of the ...

... the country going for a rest every day around 1:30pm... maybe the Roma versus Milan match, and of course Nona.  Nothing is done ********** (ok maybe customer service but we won't go there); they even look fabulous, always put together, even to run around the corner for more olive oil for Nona.  We loved every minute of it and can't wait to go back.  But for now, we are off to Greece! Ciao Megan and Kevin

... where our ferry now sat. We could even see the plane itself taxi-ing across the runway, with an air force jet circling overhead. As you can imagine, we were quite glad to leave port! By thinking ahead and packing eye masks and earplugs, we actually managed a decent sleep overnight, only interrupted by one of the stewards storming in at 3am shouting "IGOUMENITSA!!! IGOUMENITSA!!" to warn anyone going there that it was time to leave the ship. Thanks, guy.

... she had was a strange wee kettle and no teapot she did very well. In the morning instead of the usual cake ,warm biscuits and cherries we all seemed to be tucking into the full English breakfast. It was then that it struck me that the intense Italian experience was over Sadly. Would we do it again? BRING IT ON!!! The Group. There were 12 of us tourists but I can only talk about the 7 who shared the Masseria Piutri experience. 7 disparate people who came to be there because of ...