Thursday April 20, 2023 Today Carol and I plan to hike through the Parco Regionale Della Murgia Materena. The park encompasses the Gravina, a gorge with a river running through it and a foot bridge over the river. Daves Foot is bothering him so they will not be joining us. We head to where the […]
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Month: April 2023
Matera An Ancient Place
Wednesday April 19, 2023 In the morning we enjoy another nice breakfast of croissants with jam and cappuccino. We thank Francesca for her kindness and she gives us some biscuit type cookies as a gift as well as a drawing that she made herself. Another wonderful experience for us. We walk to the train station […]
Rolling the Dice in Monopoli
Tuesday April 18, 2023 We wake up to another bleary rainy day…wait a minute, we look outside and the sun is shining and according to Carol, there is a 70 percent chance of rain after 1500. In the meantime, Francesca brings us our breakfast. Carol, Dave and I just have the included croissant and a […]
Monopoli, It is Not Just a Board Game
Monday April 17, 2023 We start out with another great breakfast and say our farewell to the kind owner. He gives us a croissant and pastiociotti to go. It is raining slightly for our short walk to the station. There is train there which most likely is our train but much newer than the one […]
Another Rainy Day…Not
Sunday April 16, 2023 We wake up and go out into the dining room for breakfast. Our host Emmanuel greets us and shows us our breakfast. There is prosciutto and cheese, bruschetta with tomatoes, olive oil, and oregano, a bowl of fresh fruit, yogurt, a pastiociotti, chocolate filled croissant (called cornetti here) blood orange juice, […]
Gallipoli
Saturday April 15, 2023 We awake to another magnificent breakfast with the addition of biscotti made by Donatellas mother. Don Nino BNB has exceeded our expectations. We all head to the station and a few blocks away Donatella comes running up behind us. It turns out that Dave is a chia e ( key) thief […]
What’s Under Your House?
Friday April 14, 2023 We had a nice nights sleep and wake up to a nice breakfast with Italian pastries, juice, coffee, yogurt, fruit, toast and Nutella as choices. Carol gets Italian coffee, I get coffee Americana although at the end I do take a shot of espresso that should keep me going for hours. […]
Meeting Up with Friends in Lecce
Thursday April 13, 2023 We leave our apartment around 0805 and start our mile walk to the station. Along the way, we stop at the bakery and grab 2 pastiociotti to have on the train. The single car train is on time which id good as we only have a 5 minute connection in Maglie. […]
Beautiful Sea Walk
Wednesday April 12, 2023 We slept in until after 0900 today. I looked at the map we got and between that and google maps was able to plot out a nice route along the cliffs by the sea just north of town. That is if part of the route is not private property. Google is […]
On to the Adriatic
Tuesday April 11, 2023 Last night, I was writing and practicing loading pictures to my iPad, when the new wireless keyboard, I had bought died. We soon discovered that the charging cable for the keyboard was left behind, so we were up later than usual looking for electronics stores in our next destination. This led […]