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Travel Blogs from Barletta
Lunch with Beatrice
... and ignored their tutting...... childish but satisfying!
Easy transfer to the train up the coast to Molfetta to meet up with Beatrice & family where her Mum laid on a feast while Beatrice & I caught up with our news. After lunch more family arrived and we went for a walk around town and had a coffee and soon it was time for me to get the bus back down to Bari. Luckily Beatrice had checked and found that the ...
Day 289 - Alberobello & the East Coast
... Gelato despite the wet and chilly weather.
HISTORY:
The seaside fort, the Castello Svevo (Swabian Castle) loomed large in the poorly lit night as the rain misted about. It had been a strategic location since 1132. Across a large cobblestoned piazza (town square) was the old city. The glow from the sparse and dim streetlights was filtered by the extremely humid air affording a gloomy and at times slightly dodgy atmosphere ...
And Barletta is completely different ...
... and (b) rather a boring route, I was glad I did that bit by train.
I found the hotel quite easily and went off to explore. Barletta is quite, quite different from Pescara. Quite industrialised and clearly the holidaymakers there were not expecting anything "flashy". I walked up to the castle which is surrounded by a park where children were playing in the playground and families and groups of youngsters were just sitting around or - ...
Trani - more than meets the eye
(S) Sometimes when you're traveling, you decide to make quick detours to see random things which were not on your "to do" list. This was one of those. We were a bit sad we were done with our "European church" visiting, so I consulted the trusty 6 year old Lonely Planet to see what was on our route. Turns out, according to the LP, Trani is the "Pearl of Puglia" and has a great port-side cathedral worth a visit. So we do. Of ...
Trani
C'est ici que vis ma famille (enfin une partie). C'est une ville très agréable le long de la mer adriatique, par contre c'est pas du tout touristique, ici on ne vous harcèle pas pour vous forcer à acheter des souvenirs ou autre. Ici c'est détente avec la plage qui vient d'être réaménagée. Sachez aussi que dans cette ville les magasins ferment de 11h à 17h. Et oui il fait chaud, la ville s'arrête, je parle bien sur en ...