Hotel 7 Mari 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.

... interrupted Homicide for about 2 days to scarf it down. One thing that might make a difference is whether you've read Danny's preceding books:
Are You Dave Gorman? where Danny bets Dave he can't find 56 other Dave Gormans
Join Me where Danny starts a cult by accident
Yes Man where Danny vows to never say no to anything anymore

They're all true accounts and equally funny, but Friends Like These ...

... paper doesn't go down the toilet, it goes in the bin). After a second opinion from another person, I marched down to reception and demanded the bin be changed. Someone came immediately and changed it, not with good grace I may add. This helped straight away, but the stink was still not great.
We went for a walk and wandered the boat, alot of the chairs were taken due to people having no cabins and trying to find a good place to ...

... Italian, it was little surprise to find that this was once part of ancient Magna Graecia; in fact you are more likely to stumble upon Greek temples than you are Roman ruins. Known in Italy as a land of myth and fable, this little region was clearly full of surprises.

Whenever I think back to the first day in Basilicata, images of mountains, beautiful scenery and sunny skies fill my thoughts - a lovely start to the holiday!

... cafe, we couldn't get any service. We kept getting cut in line and the register people would help us. Apparently they don't like tourists here...so, no coffee.

Took a train from Napoli to Caserta. In caserta I finally got a coffee, and all it was was this tiny little shot glass with the most potent coffee I've ever had...pretty tasty though. We met some people here who ...

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.

Pete was also called Pietro while in Italy. :-)

Trullo comes from the Greek word, "tholos" – meaning “dome”. See the pictures of the wee houses.

We found the Belvedere pub here too - also the name of our local in Aus – meaning “beautiful view”. It was beautiful.

... to find a pharmacy, it's a long ferry journey and I don't travel so well, I never get sick but I do start to feel a bit rough after a while and I have no idea what the sailing conditions may bring. Relief of sorts I see a sign for Carrefour, my motto is "where there's a Carrefour there is every other type of outlet". One hour later I arrive at Carrefours having been bullied by the Italian drivers, suffered from Sat Nav sending me up a road which ordinarily ...

... was great lying in bed watching them, they were in such good condition - better than most of the horses in captivity we've seen! We saw a few eagles one of which showed us a gorgeous meadow park up. Which was perfect except for the amount of flies. There were apparently wolves, snakes, wild cats, boars and ginormous mosquito's. The weather is definitely hotting up. I made the most of the space to do a few repairs..hopefully no more leaks now. We accidentally fell out of the park and into ...

... out in the park, and were almost run down by numerous men on tiny scooters. I have heard bad things about Bari, but we had a great time, and never felt unsafe. That afternoon, we boarded our second ferry on Aguodimos Lines. Holy ****! We couldn't believe how nice it was in comparison. It was like being on a cruise ship. We had airplane seats on this one, but as the lounge was pretty empty we were able to stretch out on several seats and get some solid sleep. The ...

... as the pizzas here as the supposedly the best. A minute after leaving the train station I decided I didn't like the look or feel of this city. It is feral. So ten minutes after walking around, I returned to the station and ate some pizza at a bar there. It was okay and much safer than being in Naples!! Caught the train to Caserta, waited for a bit and then another train to Bari. Once I got to ...