Castellinaria Hotel
Travel Blogs from Polignano a Mare
Costa Fascinosa
okay I lied.. the Commentary will not be coming for a few days because the internet on the cruise is insanely expensive so we are doing our connecting to the outside world in cafes on shore. Today we docked in Bari and so far the city does not measure up to Venice but I don't blame it. Don't know if any city will ever compare! Will just post photos for the time being and continue writing sans internet and will upload the entries when I ...
SHOP Till WE DROPPPPP
... specialty restaurant, Qsuine. This place takes ordinary foods and makes them extrodinary. We had everything from sliders to food like fish and chips, lava king crab, escargot, lobster, disco shrimp, lamb, kebabs and more! And to finish it all off, we drank a pitcher of white sangria (which Mama got drunk off of) and had 4 desserts. The grand total of time took us almost 3 hours to eat all this food. Seriously one of my favourite dining ...
Oct 03, 2012
Very pleasant sleep on the ferry. Lying on a big couch and no one to tell me off. Bari was a little refreshing. Ugh. My watch was still on Greek time. ****** me right up. Instead of a free easy transfer it's a blind, paid, long scramble. No wonder things weren't making ...
Bari...Santa's Mediterranean villa in off season
... of families with fireworks and prosecco for the first Communion of 7 year old Barians. We also toured the museum of Saint Nicholas and saw the merger of 2 great Christian Churches with the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic. An orthodox monk of Turkish heritage today still unites two worlds with religious tolerance. Mike was surprised to learn that Santa was not a fat, short, white guy ...
Trulli magnificent
... an area called the Trulli. This area has unique buildings that are round, single story with conical apperance and oddly tapered roofs. They are only found in this area and they don't know where they came from. They are made of layers of flat stones stacked on top of each other with no mortar. They date back to the 13th century, but are still in use today. In the village of Alberobello, there are about 1500 Trulli. We walked ...
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- Restaurant
- Room service
- Free parking