Hotel La Peschiera Bari

... sorry Jo, south of the river hardly counts). If it weren't for my coworkers Paul and later Gavin and Steve, I would be hard pressed to find any significant interactions with any English. On holiday I once made the mistake of answering an inquiry into where I live with "England" and was met with funny looks until I clarified it with "London". Of course in London, telling someone that I'm from the US would ...

My friends and I stayed at this bed and breakfast in Mola just south of Bari. It was the best yet. Large old English style accomodations, we stayed in an apartment with 2 bedrooms and 1 bath, large veranda overlooking the main street. It even had a full kitchen. The breakfast was the best we have experienced. It is worth the trip just for the accomodations. A nice beach area with breath taking views is just 10 minutes south in Polignano. <br><br>A must see for those off the tourist path. <br>

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.

Owing to problems with the internet booking, ie total inability to book ferry tickets to Corfu. I have had to hotfoot it to the port of Bari to buy my tickets direct from the agents at the port. Another city in Italy that is not so much fun to navigate in the car, it's easy to follow the signs for the port but not necessarily to navigate anywhere else. I arrive at the booking office and have a very ...

... shut between 1 and 5pm (that´s every shop, so make sure you have enough drinking water in summer), but so do all petrol stations, tourist attractions, in fact everything. Something to plan round anyway.<br><br>The villages of Alberobello and Locorotondo were just lovely, and we ended up spending the night at the historic hillside town of Ostuni, with its labrinthine alley and streets - almost like living in a maze.

Our cruise to Greece, Croatia, and back to Italy began today, so we did a few errands in the morning, including withdrawing Euros from an ATM, finding a pharmacy to purchase some OTC meds (that's right...Jody started getting sick on the way to Europe), and buying a shirt for David. Then we took a taxi to the port. There, we waited to check in with our cruise line, who had things very well ...

Today was a site seeing day for the four of us. We hopped the train and headed to a unique little town called Alberobello. This is the only place in Italy that has the cone shaped roofed houses made out of stone. Alberobello is a UNESCO Site and is something not to be missed. Due to train schedule constraints we didn't have much opportunity to spend time there. Only a quick look around, lunch and then headed to Lecce.

... The plates kept coming and coming. For 6 Euro, we got a large plate of grilled and marinated eggplant and zucchini and roasted capsicum with capers. Then there was a plate of large bocconcini. Another plate had warm items...crumbed mushrooms, cheesy bread balls and more. Another yummmmm! Well we came to this part of the world specifically to see the trulli - which are only located ...

... they had and had 2 small suitcases packed with literally all they owned, and were finding their "dream" job as they work together on yachting jobs. Interesting couple and fun to chat with. We had told them that this ferry ride was a cinch and before they knew it they would be in Bari and not even realize they had been on the water! HaHa! It was not as if we had lied to poor John and Delysa but it just happened that this was one of only a couple of the worst voyages all year ...

... s like breathing cigarette smoke. Got to the hostel - nothing special. At least there is free internet. Dropped off my stuff and went off to sample the famous Napoli pizza. For once, I found something that lived up to its hype. I splurged on the eight flavoured pizza. Like a celestial pinwheel of heavenly goodness ... little strands of dough divided it into eight sections. Segregated ... yet integrated ... like our planet Earth. Before eating I had a moment of ...