“Evidently, the God of the Jews didn’t know Puglia, otherwise he wouldn’t have given his people Palestine as the Promised Land.” – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Puglia (1194 to 1250 AD).
Posted in Beaches, Europe, Food, History, Hotels, Italy, Literature, Natural Environment, Postcards, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Alberobello, Bari, Culture, Italian Driving, Italian Siesta, Italian Taxi Drivers, Lecce, Life, Ostuni, Polignano a Mare, Puglia, Trenitalia
I have got a few gaps in the map, so I will have to get travelling…
Upon my return from Naples I thought I might update my map of places that I have visited in Italy.
Click on an image to scroll through the picture gallery…
Posted in Beaches, Childhood, Europe, Food, Greek islands, History, Iceland, Literature, Morocco, Natural Environment, Postcards, Spain, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Alagarve, Bari, Culture, Essaouira Fishing Port, Ios, Life, Sorrento
Early morning was a good time to be visiting Bari Vecchia where the residents of the crooked streets were preparing for the day ahead. Washing lines were being loaded and cranked into position high up across the alleys and lanes and strung outside windows like bunting as though in anticipation of a parade or a carnival, stretching across the streets, smelling sweetly of soap powder, dripping indiscriminately and swaying gently backwards and forwards above the secret doorways and back alleys.
Posted in Cathedrals, Europe, Food, History, Italy, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Bari, Culture, Life, Photography, Puglia, Santa Clause, St Nicholas
At the harbour someone had done a lot of clearing up and all of the debris from the previous night had been removed and now in place of the beer vendors there were marble slabs alive with fresh fish pulled only recently out of the sea and on the quayside a man pulverising an octopus to break down the skeleton and to tenderise it.
Posted in Beaches, Europe, Food, Italy, Travel
Tagged Bari, Culture, Hotel Oriente Bari, Life, People Watching, Photography, Polignano a Mare, Puglia
Early Morning Walk in Bari, Puglia…
… Elsewhere there were steps and pavements to be swept, food to be prepared and shopkeepers were arranging their pavement displays, women were shopping to be sure of the freshest produce and old men were selecting shady corners in which to pitch a chair for the remainder of the day and everywhere motor scooters zipped past, engines cracking like machine gun fire, making deliveries regardless of any pedestrian right of way.
Eventually, with probably more luck than we were entitled to, we found our way out of the labyrinth of narrow streets and on to a main street that we thought we recognised and shortly we were back at the hotel for late breakfast and then for checkout.
Posted in Europe, Food, History, Hotels, Italy, Literature, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Bari, Culture, Hotel Oriente Bari, Life, People Watching, Photography, Polignano a Mare, postaday, Puglia
