Minerva 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.

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.

... entire time. We kept getting tickled, and finally Dennis got up, and located another compartment for us.<br><br>There is nothing more relaxing to me than to sit back and watch the world go by, on the train.<br><br>We arrived in Brindisi in just enough time to purchase and board our ferry. The room on the boat was small, but comfortable. We would arrive in Corfu the next morning.

Hey!! Thank you all for the wonderful comments, i love hearing from everyone I'm sitting in class right now, during our break. Today we have event management class!! it's pretty interesting, we planned an event proposal yesterday and today we are planning an agenda and using excel to create a billing list. it's actually pretty fun! The other day we took a surprise trip instead of Italian Class to a Nature preserve. We drove through a field of trees that ...

Finally some pictures!! Friday night they had live music and dancing in the hotel bar, it was a lot of fun. The band was an italian police cover band. next weekend is a dire straights cover band! For valentines day, the hotel had a big dinner and we had no idea we were going until like 5 minutes beforehand, it was a surprise. they labeled our table as reserved for "Americani". it was awesome! it lasted from 9 to after 1 in the morning, it had like six ...

... 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 ...

... too) who have brought a Trulli house. These houses are only found in this region of Italy and are built up of cones. The idea being that they can be dismantled easily and moved when the taxman was on his way - many years ago. Nowadays, alot of them have fallen into disrepair and ex-pats amoung others are putting them back to how they originally were. We enjoyed a night of homemade and cooked pizzas ...

Bob I called him Bob. No idea what his actual name was. He was lounging around outside one of the cafes, inviting people in for coffee. He was also a provider of information, and after we had grilled him for some time about where to get our tickets from, we thought it only polite to have a coffee. It was still too early to get the tickets, but the ferry did leave that night - which was one night sooner than we expected. This was a good thing. Brindisi ...

The Italian Trip. Day 1 So, here I am sitting, at 6 am, on our own private terrace in the warm morning sunshine. We arrived last night after a long boring journey; having started out at 10am and arriving rather tired around 9 pm. We were met by Carmela and family and friends with balloons, hugs and kisses for all. Which all made for a lovely arrival and a warm feeling of friendship. We were whisked into many cars and sped off to our new homes; some of the party were staying in ...