Italy Hotel Club Barsotti 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.

After spending one more nite in Naples, we boarded the train and headed for Brindisi. There we would catch the overnite ferry to Corfu, Greece. I had been to Corfutown, a couple of times, but this, too, was Dennis' first time, and I was anxious to show him around.<br><br>We both thoroughly enjoyed the train ride. Intially, we were in a compartment with a young couple that made-out ...

... 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!!

... 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 ticketing guys proceeded to ask Kel why she locked the key in the car to which she replied scathingly "because I'm a nob". But they did offer to drive us to "the new terminal" - consisting of one tiny café - for some food before coming to pick us up again when siesta was over. By this time we had devised a plan to have the back window smashed and replaced at the glass place across the road from Millie, so upon returning to the ticketing ...

... up tips on authentic I Italian cooking. In the afternoon we had the choice of going to the beach or to a winery, which was open to the public. We elected to do that. Cosimo and Francesca came along to sell their produce...cherries. The wine was of excellent quality and you could buy it by the bottle or the case, we thought about it but as we had a weight problem with out luggage and Ryanair; and sending it by the case would make it horrendously expensive we decided just to ...

started the tour from brindisi. day was full of fun and high fives as we set off on day one of our adventure. crashed out at 630pm that night... great to be on the road distance 70km 45m distance on my computer is in miles so the KMS is just a close guess

... emptied by the disappointed robbers.  The tide had grown high and the sea water was beginning to wash out our clothes which were scatterd all over the place.  Time was ticking.  I quickly threw everything in the bags and climbed out as the sea had taken, of all things, my underwear....<br><br>but apart from that, it was all there, our rags and most importantly, our passports!!!! We took an overnight ferry to Greece and headed east.