The day started with a walk across the street to the "Tabachie". We had heard that the lady there made her own wine from locally grown grapes and sells it fir 1 Euro 20... so we had to try it. As we're approaching her house, a car stops beside us and starts yelling out his window - something in Italian. Only word I understood was "pesce", fish? When he realizes we don't speak Italian, he jumps out of his car and opens his trunk. It's full of fresh fish, squid, mussels... he starts shucking mussels and is handing them to me.
A few minutes later, I'm walking back to the trullo with a bag full of mussels, two litres of white and one litre of red wine, all for about 8 Euros.
Then we headed off to the coast - the Adriatic Sea. First we headed to Polignano A Mare, a sea coast tourist town with an old historic centre on the water. Lovely strolling through the town where we saw - of course, old churches, including a very cute small church, called a "chiesetta" (church is "chiesa"), right on the sea.
The main piazza was very peaceful. They seem to be getting ready for some big music festival this weekend.
The sea is a beautiful blue colour; the town has balconies that allow you to watch the waves crashing into the cliffs below. One of these balconies is where I took my daily selfie today.
...and of course, beaches?
Then we headed down the coast a bit to another coastal town called Monopoly - nothing to do with the board game.
This town is a port town on the water, with an old historic centre, with old churches.... am I starting to sound repetitive? There's a theme to these old Italian towns, but they are all beautiful.
Here we found a lovely little restaurant overlooking the sea, where we had very nice fresh fish. This place had been recommended by my friend Neil, and I'm glad we found it.
Here's a few shots I took while sitting there enjoying a lovely grilled fish.
More water crashing into the rocks and the obligatory beach.
Then we proceeded to stroll through the old historic centre, where we found the old churches...
...but this time, a fort castle. Being a port city, I guess it had to be defended, so there's this castle right on the water.
Like many Italian towns, the locals adorn their stairways and walls with beautiful colourful flowers.
Finally, we headed back to the trullo where we were going to try the pizza oven. We picked up the groceries we needed to make scrumptious Italian pizza - this one is before it went in the oven.
We cooked them in this built in pizza oven that is part of the trullo.
Did it work? Let's just say that I have developed an entire new admiration for the people who do this for a living. It's definitely not as easy as it looks. It still made for a very enjoyable dinner on a lovely evening.
And the mussels were delicious.
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