Magical Matera ☀️🗻

A 350 km 4 hour 😏) bus 🚌 journey across Italy’s 🇮🇹 Amalfi to Puglia region. An interesting fact about current expense in Italy… Petrol costs twice as much as it does in Australia! We have 4 women on our bus 🚌 that babble incessantly about the most boring things, cackling like chickens 🐓 on and on and on! Just shut the farm for 10 minutes ladies! 😤🤯😡 There is one in particular that I often fantasise recreating that epic scene in Serial Mom, where the woman sits in her armchair, singing along with Annie and Beverly comes up behind her… whinge for the day over…Sorry, not sorry. 🙄🙄🙄🤐🤐

Anyway… back to being PC 🤫😝Matera is an amazing UNESCO World Heritage Site: the city of stones and rock churches. Matera is one of the oldest, still inhabited cities in the world: a magical place that preserves evidence of human settlements since the Palaeolithic period in its natural caves carved into the rock. In true TripADeal style, we wasted an hour and a half in the modern part of the town and thankfully, then, discovered the magical part as shown in these photos. Another downfall of TripADeal is that you miss out on the night life, and being part of the light shows that these towns become at night.

Puglia region is where focaccia originated so, of course, that had to be lunch choice! Freshly baked in the morning, along with freshly created mozzarella 😋

I absolutely loved this beautiful town… and can imagine how wonderful it would be and simply magical at night with all the lights illuminating up these beautiful white buildings… There are cafes and restaurants and beautiful little alleyways to wander and meander around in… German and I did the obligatory half an hour with the guide & then we went off and explored on our own: finishing our own special tour with Limoncello and April spritzes! 🍹

Back on the bus 🚌 and a Peroni to allow mind to block out those pesky ladies! 😇😝😵‍💫🤐

Next stop: the unique brilliance of the Tulli 🛖town of Alberobello…Читать далее