Sculptured Salento

With great anticipation and excitement I headed out to the front of our hotel 🏨 this morning and jumped off the small rickety jetty into the Adriatic Sea! Now, this is the Italy 🇮🇹 I’m talking about! Surrounded by just the locals in their jocks and undies 🩲 simply relaxing and enjoying the sun ☀️ …there were many rocks 🪨 so my new water socks came in incredibly handy!

Poetry Cave was an absolute vision of shimmering, shining aquatic beauty but, unfortunately, for us, it may as well have been a mirage. We were forbidden 🚫 to swim 🏊‍♂️ and dive! 😢
As you can see from the photos the American 🇺🇸 tour group made their own rules 😤 Good for them I suppose…I was envious 😫

All was not lost because we then arrived at another fantastic area where we could jump off the rocks and truly experience the relaxation and exhilaration of a couple of hours in crystal blue clear water! Loved it so much: wished we could’ve stayed the entire day. We fit in a delicious lunch (…after trying to get some service…!) of pizza 🍕 (…again!) and bought some freshly made cheese 🧀 from a man who makes it on his farm. He was selling it at the beach 🏖️ The perfect day would’ve been not to have to rush lunch but, instead, a leisurely one, a few more Peroni’s 🍺 and then back into the beautiful Adriatic Sea 🌊 in the beach that I longed for through the opening of the trattoria blinds! Robyn, you’ll understand the magic and rejuvenation that comes for such a day on the Puglia coast 💚🤍❤️

Otranto was the second to last stop. It has a beautiful castle and you can basically swim in the moat so I had a quick look around the town and a delicious gelato 🍧 (…extremely delicious 🤤) before heading back into the water to relax, realign & be in the moment again! ☀️🇮🇹🌊🏊‍♂️

This has been a wonderful day exploring beaches 🏖️ and, my personal favourites: rock 🪨 pools…Reminded me that organising your own itinerary where your timeline is your own: to go or stay or, most importantly, linger longer if you want!

My skin is covered in salt 🧂 which tells me it has been a great day 😊Read more