Category Archives: Puglia 2019

Sunday is for cyclists in and around Castel del Monte. Thousands of cyclists. It appears to be the cycling capital of the world. I’ve never seen so much lycra. And they crowd every available and unavailable, space. Nowhere is safe … Continue reading →

In 1956 the final inhabitants of the caves in Sassi were evicted into bright, modern apartment buildings into a new part of town. For millennia the population had lived in hollowed out bits of the tufa cliffs, spaces carved into … Continue reading →

There was a 24 hour Italian transport strike on today. Trains stopped at 9pm last night, planes were cancelled from all over the world, buses refused to leave the depots, the whole place was going to come to a grinding … Continue reading →

In Monopoli, along the side of the Adriatic Sea, there’s an old Roman road ordered by Trajan and used to great effect by the legions of Roman soldiers headed from Rome and Brindisi towards Albania which is just across the … Continue reading →

Today we spent a lot of time wandering around and through the extraordinary trulli of Alberobello. It is an extraordinary place – we only saw the big one rather than the smaller one which we’ll visit tomorrow – and a … Continue reading →

Quite often our holidays are delightful excursions that go from just beautiful to incredibly stunning. Sometimes they embrace the other end of the scale generally from bad to worse. However, today went from truly ugly to truly beautiful. To start … Continue reading →

Hats off to the genius at British Airways who decided to go with Brewdog. It’s rare that such a delicious beer is served up and it’s very important to take full advantage of it. And I did. I particularly took … Continue reading →