Dubrovnik - the jewel of the Adriatic

We are now in Dubrovnik in Croatia after a long day in Bari and catching the boat to Croatia.
Kirk has decided that he won't be returning to Bari.  It started with the vending machine not dispensing our packet of chips on ari railway station, catching the wrong local bus to the port (bus 20 rather than 20/) and ending up in the middle of nowhere, and spending hours at various locations tryibg to buy a boat ticket due to bad information.
Anyway the boat trip was fine and we got there in the end.
Croation women seem to favour big hair so I am fitting in fine.
We are staying in an apartment in the old city which is very beautiful.

Trani

We are spending the day and night in Trani, the so-called "Pearl of Puglia" a pretty town on the coast north of Bari.
Hopefully we will be catching the boat tomorrow night to Dubrovnik.

Trulli-amazing

We are currently staying in Alberobello in the heart of trulli land.  The trulli are strange cone shaped houses - see photos.  Lots of good wine, olive oil and pig :-)

Day trip to otranto

We took a day trip to the seaside to the pretty town of Otranto. The local trains are very local - the trains are the size of buses and the train driver opens his window, asks you where you are going, and says hop on.

Still in Lecce

Quiet day of mindless meandering and arranging our journey to Egypt
Siesta here is legally enforceable.
The town goes from "BUSY" at 13:00 to "ASLEEP" at 14:00, and little happens 'till 17:00
All we could do was obey
We have been out of practice with red wine, but are trying to make up for it!
Puglia has great (filling) Antipasti, and the wine is OK :-)
We paid well over 20 Euros last night at the local Osteria for dinner .. YUM.
Looks like Pizza tonight, hope it's OK

Puglia - down in the heel of Italy

Greetings from Lecce in Puglia.  The "Florence of the south" has a beautiful old town with lots of baroque architecture.  Puglia is the food bowl of italy with lots of good wine.  We are currently on the rooftop of our guesthouse sampling the local red wine.  The work life balance around here seems ok - siesta lasts from 1pm until 5pm.

Last night in Rome

We are off to dinner at Antico Arco where kirky celebrated his 50th birthday.  We now have visas for India so we are all sorted for December.
Off to Puglia tomorrow.