Mercure Villa Romanazzi Carducci Bari

As it turns out, filling that day wasn't so much of a problem.... we tootled out of town, found a beach, wandered about & looked at the boats; tootled back, found somewhere to eat, had a chat with a few Brits and - hey presto! - before you knew it, time for bed! But the one on board was a bit more of a challenge... all 13 hours of it! BIG ...

... especially by kids - it just sounds so BOUNCY. But holy **** it makes every whine sound that much more insufferable


The Complete Pollysyllabic Spree
Nick Hornby
purchased and completed a few years ago
===============================< br>OK this is a slight cheat in that I read this book shortly after it first came out. But it's salient because it's a book of book reviews from which I'm ...

... was another accident, and guess who it was... yep the hatchback with the kid lying across the back window!!

These people are lunitics on the road, plain and simple!! Or then of course there were the enormous piles of rubbish on the side of the road, one of which self combusted in the heat and was smoking with flames!!! A totally different part of Italy to what we had seen days earlier!

Anyway we make it to Bari in time to board the overnight ferry ...

... around 3.30pm, carried our bags accross and up the elevators to the reception. We got our swipe card and not escorted but told to go a floor up to our cabin. The cabin was small and SMELLED SO BAD it was disgusting. As Dave would say, it smelled like ass. Horrid and stinky were were not happy, as you opened the bathroom the smell got worse. There was an inch or 2 of water on the floor and the bin had remenants of being used (ie ...

The most surprising thing I found before leaving England was that no one even know where Basilicata was! Even friends who thought they knew Italy well weren't aware of Basilicata as its not very well known. On the plane from Stansted, most of the English people we spoke were going on holiday to visit family or friends and most were staying in Puglia, not Basilicata.


If you're planning to visit Basilicata, you will defintely ...

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.

My last evening brought about an attempt by Kristina to communicate, she's worked ******* her charades and we managed to spend some quality time in front of the TV in not absolute silence, nearly but not quite, bless! she bought me a hot chocolate. This morning brings a beautiful crisp, bright morning. There is a warm glow over the Piazza Grande, bicycles clatter across the cobbles, all is well with the world. I hadn't mentioned before but Modena is a ...

We're part-way through the dash down to (hopefully) sunny Greece, pausing momentarily at one of Italy's largest sea traffic hubs. As most Italians can probably tell you, Bari doesn't exactly have the best of reputations. Known for its confusingly mazelike old town, terrible traffic, high crime rate and chaotic streetlife, it's kind of a place most people get in and out of as quickly as possible. That it may have anything of interest to the ...

... there was a cool fortress which I only saw from the outside (cause I'm not paying 10 euros to see it, sorry Bari Tourism Board). However most of the time in Bari was spent sitting and waiting, in a park, on the dock, on the ferry, etc. The poem below describes an event where two dogs entered the park in which we were waiting. It was just a happy moment and encapsulated the ...

... por la "z". en fin... lo que decia... que es una zona turistica playera... alli estuve hasta que pude entrar en el ferry. Por cierto una pasada, me pille viaje con camarote, costaba bastante mas que en cubierta pero era por la noche duraba como 10 horas y necesitaba dormir, asi que movida vacaciones en el mar, mola, y el ...