Finding A Swimming Hole in Puglia South Of Otranto Staying in Lecce for a week, we needed to head out if we wanted to find water and a swimming hole in Puglia! We had visited the town of Otranto to see the Cathedral but left drooling at the beautiful crystal […]
Day Trip To Visit the Otranto Crypt At our full day cooking course in Lecce, we were told not to miss a visit to Otranto while in Puglia with its infamous Cathedral sporting the skulls of 813 martyrs. We were on the road by 9am to make sure we hit the […]
Wander The Countryside To Find Enchanting Trulli We had visited the white hill town of Ostuni in the morning and we headed from there along little twisty turny country roads toward the enchanting Trulli. This was the most well known and touristic town that showcased a whole village of little trulli […]
We Didn’t Find a Swimming Beach Before Heading Into the Hills This was our day to backtrack north from Lecce to see the sights we had driven past in our long drive south from Pescara to Lecce. We had several target stops – to see the white hill town of […]
Heading South In Puglia To Where The Adriatic Meets the Ionian Sea The day dawned bright and sunny so we got out our map of Puglia to pick a direction for our day of travel. This day we would head south from Lecce as far as we could go, where the Adriatic […]
Learning Southern Italy Cooking in Lecce Learning about food in Italy was a favourite part of travelling in Italy! We were off for a day of Southern Italy cooking lessons with Silvestro at The Awaiting Table in Lecce. Worried about drinking and driving, we called a cab from the hotel and […]
Exploring Abruzzo Region From Pescara By The Sea People kept asking us why we had chosen Pescara by the sea as a stop. It worried us for a while, wondering if we had made a mistake. The answer was simple – it was on the Adriatic coast of Italy mid-way […]
Seeking The Highest Point in Abruzzo High In The Apennine Mountains Leaving Pescara for the day, we got up early to first make a stop to pay our parking ticket. Luckily the town with the over-zealous parking police was enroute for our planned day.This slight detour put David in a cranky […]
Force Of Nature Hit But L’Aquila Still Recovering We spent a week in Pescara on the Adriatic coast of Italy and explored the Abruzzo region with day trips. One day we headed high in the Gran Sassa mountain and park area. With map in hand we picked L’Aquila for our enroute […]
Heading To Civitella Del Tronto In The Mountains of Abruzzo With map in hand we plotted a day trip north from Pescara to pick up sites we may have missed in our train trip from Rimini to Pescara. Having been far too ambitious in our planning when we took our day trip […]
South of Pescara Coastal Forts Protect The Adriatic Coast We planned to take a day to explore the coastline south of Pescara as far as Vieste in Puglia. After we finished our week in Pescara, we were headed to Lecce in Puglia for our next week. The drive to Lecce would […]
Visiting Sulmona For Authentic Confetti To tour around the Abruzzo region in Italy, we were finally renting a car! Every trip we have made, we planned to get a car and have got lulled into the ease of train and bus travel. While that gets you almost everywhere, we knew […]
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