Alberobello

Today we took a bus from Monopoli to Alberobello—home of the beautiful UNESCO Trulli stone houses. After about an hour on the bus, driving through the Puglian countryside, we arrived in Alberobello. Now to find the Trulli. Up this street, down that—we wound our way from the bus stop, which is on the outskirts of town, toward the centre. It’s here we found the amazing Trulli. Memories came flooding back from our previous visit in 2015, when we stayed in town in Trulli for a few days. ...

Saturday we packed up and checked out of the villa. It was sad to leave as its been an absolutely great time and very relaxing, but everything must come to an end and we must move on to our next destination - Alberobello. Alberobello is in the south east of Italy, not far from Bari - but it’s roughly 750km from where we currently are in Siena, which will make for a long days driving. Furthermore we need to swing by Rome airport to pickup Maddie (Laura’s sister) who will be joining the travelling group for a few weeks. ...