Category: Culture

We had to leave Lecce fairly early for the long drive back to Bari. That was where we had rented that car and we had decided that Bari warranted another full day or so to do it justice. Thanks to my iPhone GPS I was able get into the city and to the address of […]

  Why did I even know or think of Galipoli? I don’t really recall who it was, but someone Italian that I talked with in Bologna waxed ecstatic about the red shrimp in Galipoli. She said that they were particularly delicious and found nowhere else. So that fixed Galipoli in my mind, food references have […]

Yes, I should be ashamed of the pun but I am, after all, shameless. I visited Lecce last year but hardly saw anything of the city. I was desperate to find an ottica (optics – glasses etc) to buy a replacement contact lens so I didn’t explore very much  while I waited out the typical 4 […]

The next morning I took a bus to the Bari airport. I had asked for Economy or Mini  sized car but they were out so gave me what seemed to me a big car at the same price. Frankly smaller is often better in Italy since the streets in old towns are pretty narrow. In any case […]