haha , no, now it all comes full circle. two years in the future, I am spending oct/nov renting an apartment in Corigliano D'Otranto, from Canada. So I was researching things to do, as we do. I came upon the Travel Beans video last night; I've watched them for years but missed that one, so it was like old friends showing me around. I did note Emma's laugh at the wall carving. And today, doing more research, I watched you explore this site and show Emma and Alex laughing at the wall carving lol. I will have to find it!!!
I love puglia. My favourite triangle spans from Polignano, Monopoli, Savelletri, Ostuni, down to Brindisi and Lecce and across to Gallipoli. Affordable accomodation, beautiful beaches, great food and wine as well as friendly and happy people.
@@thedude579 how nice. I went there I did all the lap around. Do You work there as a foreigner? I went by nardo, but those places get emptied in the winter
@@olgasampis9745 You are right, the modern tourist places die down in winter, but in puglia even in winter there is still a lot of local-life left in the old towns and villages.
Hi guys. Thanks for the great videos, which are both informative and interesting. We are visiting Puglia later this year and will be discovering the region by car. We have travelled extensively and love to discover as lone tourists...so a lot in common with you 🙂. When we hired a car when travelling in Tuscany we found it problematic...much more so than anywhere else in the world we had travelled to. Compared to a lot of other developed countries the road signs are always in Italian with no sub language. As we do not speak Italian (we always attempt to speak and get to know the local language) we were always very aware of ensuring we parked in a permitted zone and tried to avoid travelling down restricted (residents only) roads...particularly where there was no Italian sign to attempt to translate just a local graphic sign. We failed, returning home to the UK to a nice driving fine (we had hit a restricted zone without realising 😞). We would be grateful for any advice/information you can give as regards driving in Puglia and particularly when we enter towns to park etc. We wonder if we should leave the car at our various regional bases (hotels, B&B) and take public transport (Train/buses etc) to the towns and villages (centre of)...but doing that seems to be counter intuitive when paying to hire a car. Any help you can give guys would be appreciated. Keep well and safe travelling. "Diolch yn fawr" from Wales.
minute 7:11 you taked the "pane arabo" (arabic bread), there is written above, and the pizzetta is a little pizza that you could find below the writing lol
From Wikipedia: "The Adriatic or Apulian Plate is a small tectonic plate carrying primarily continental crust that broke away from the African Plate along a large transform fault in the Cretaceous period. The name Adriatic Plate is usually used when referring to the northern part of the plate. This part of the plate was deformed during the Alpine orogeny, when the Adriatic/Apulian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate."
Mariano, glad to hear it was helpful! Hope you have a great time, and please let us know what you think of Puglia (and other recommendations) after your trip! Thanks for watching. 👍 -Howard
Just discovered Travel Beans and your channel. Love you both! Doing some research for a 1 week trip to Brindisi in September. Thanks for your helpful content!
Oh awesome! Travel Beans are great, hoping our paths cross this summer here in the USA. Have a great time in Brindisi, it's a PERFECT time of year weather and crowds-wise. So glad you're along for the journey! 👍 -Howard
It's sad that you guys didn't check out the gargano coast which is beautiful as the all pleaces shown on this video. An also much more to see in inland area of pre appennino.
Go to south Florida during the winter and you will believe the story about Florida breaking away from New York. Great video thank you again for all your hard work.
Hi guys, love your videos! We are going to Puglia this coming September 22 and have taken notes of all your tips! Thanks for sharing your experience. Can I ask what car rental you used and if you have any specific tips pls? Thanks!
Thanks, Dave! ♥️ In answer to your question, our next guide will be out soon for Italy (joining Mexico and Alaska), which will include planning, booking train tickets, rental cars, itinerary, all the stops we made and activities along the way. When are you planning your road trip in Italy?
@@NewstateNomads we are doing a week in Venice as we usually do then flying to Bari to grab a rental close to Oct 1… then driving to Matera. After that, we will loop south through Taranto, following the coast mostly back around to Bari. That’s the working plan. Road trip is about 8-9 days
Okay - so when we were in Germany we went to a similar grocery store with the self serve bread. Why has the US not caught on to this?! Also we were laughing so hard about the salami bread that we hit rewind - I think the label was for the shelf BELOW!! 😂😂. The label above your bread says “panno” and was only 0.29. Mystery solved!! And now we know for our upcoming trip! Love you guys ❤️❤️
They do have Lidl in some states here in the US and it's great. Not quite the same selection as Italy haha but it's a start! And omg I think you're right! I should have paid more attention 🤣🤣🤣 I was just so excited. It definitely made for some funny content. Thanks so much for solving the mystery!🙌❤️
Yes you took "pane arabo", that is just a kind of bread, but you paid it like a "pizzetta al salame" (little pizza with salami), which was on the shelf below... You can get scammed in Italy but definitely not at LIDL 😂
Love the Wanderlog idea!! I need to check that out! Puglia looks amazing! I think the most disappointed I have ever seen you guys was when you tried that pizzetta thing and it was just bread! 😭💖🍕
Yes! It's been awesome for helping us plan out trips and create companion maps for our guides. Let us know what you think when you try it! Puglia is so darn beautiful. And yes... hahaha the disappointment was real. SO funny!
😂ye that is pane arabo - it is great for panini. I guess they did not change the label when you were picking it up because it is obvious for a locals. great vlogs btw
Some sandstone, but looked like a little limestone. Limestone formed from dead fish, and other crustaceans. Sandstone is from old beaches basically, beach sand!
🤣 The Stuffed pizza episode was hysterical. What a let down, when you're expecting one thing and get another. But, hey I bet that was good bread regardless.
We were dying laughing by the end of it 🤣 what can ya do! Someone pointed out that the label was for the bin BELOW what I picked hahaha but yes, still very good bread!
The people in the water must be European snowbirds! Thanks for the Wanderlog tip. I’m just about to start planning a trip with friends, this seems a good way to collaborate and keep organized. ✌🏻
Try some panzerrotti in places like "Tony Bar" in Fasano. You will have stuffed bread until you are stuffed. Beware though, they are very hot inside and do not come with a warning printed on them.
Was the bread salami flavored at least? 😄 It was so cool that the B&B allowed you to at least go somewhere and get bfast. ❤ The grottos in Roca were spectacular as were all of the drone shots. I was wondering if you had brought the drone because on some of the other vids you only used a few shots and I wasn't sure if those shots were just part of tourist info on the regions. 👍 Photos with no tourists in the shot are the best. ❤❤ Do people speak English in the tourist areas or are you ordering from food places and such by the 'point at what you want' method? Thanks for sharing this beautiful country and all of the travel tips. 💕 -Troy & Aimee
Those alcoves (Christoforo Grotto) "LOOK" like burial chambers. I have no real knowledge but, there are very similar carved openings along the ruins in Argrigento (Sicily). Can't recall whether they Carthaginian or Greek or Pagan.
Hi. Just came across your channel because I was looking to see how to manage getting around the Puglia area without a car. However, it seems you need one. Any recommendations on which car company and where (I think you said Bari), but would it be more economical to rent elsewhere? Also, did you drop the car off back at point of pick-up? BTW, love the relaxed meandering vibes you both have about this trip through Puglia.
Jules, thanks so much and great question! We actually picked up the car at the train station in Naples since we planned to end our driving route there as well. It was through Budget/Avis. You can certainly find car rentals in other towns, I believe we mention Bari in the episode. The trains do run along the coast, so it is possible to explore those areas, but I would still recommend picking up an inexpensive car for a few days to discover the interior. Thanks for watching and hope you'll continue on the journey with us! 👍 -Howard
Really enjoyed learning more about Puglia, and especially the interesting coast rock formations and grottos. Just an fyi which you probably already know. Gallipoli (the Turkish one) is a place with massive resonance for many folk whose grandparents and greatgrandparents fought there in WW1, perhaps most especially folk from Australia / NZ. No reason for you to dwell on it because it's not the same place, but some acknowledgement might have been nice. SE Italy has a lot of Turkish influences dating back several centuries (eg the Trulli), so that probably explains the name being the same. Keep travelin'!
Gallipoli got its name from ancient Greeks as it was part of the Magna Grecia (the pre-roman Greek colonies in South Italy) and probably so did the one in Turkey…and I wouldn’t say that there are Turkish influences there, but rather Byzantine, which was a different culture and historical period…there is no documentation that connects trulli to Turkey either, it’s mostly speculation
The food I saw you folks eating was gross.. I hope I’ll find amazing food to eat .. That is part of what I love about Italy.. Had to change the channel.. yikes .. melt in your mouth food .. where is that please 😂
Hi Traci! We would say yes, just because it's a more rural area and there aren't the same options for getting around like in the bigger cities. And yes, driving was much easier there. There are a few restrictions, like driving in the ZTL's inside of Bari and some of the older cities. But we found it very doable!
@@NewstateNomads thanks for the reply. I Was hoping to avoid a car altogether by taking local trains but I am realizing there are probably not taxis to get you to these beautiful destinations you visited along the coast?!?
Guys the “pizzette sfoglia con salame” were those underneath 😂😂😂 that one was “pane arabo” and I hope you have paid for what it was as the price was 0.29 lol. Bear in mind when you see the word “pizza” or “pizzetta” (small pizza), it means the toppings are only on top indeed. Those which are stuffed are “calzone” or “panzerotto” which most of the time is no gonna look that white and empty like those bread rolls you have taken by mistake. Small tips to “survive” in Italy 😂 Enjoy!!!
How I really like the video.but I must correct that vieste is not the heel of Italy,it’s in the spur of Italy. How do I know I’m from vieste. My dad was born and raised in vieste . It’s my home town in Italy.. even though I was born in Ontario Canada
You read the wrong label you ate ARAB BREAD instead PIZZETTA You must read the upper label not the lower label. And you paid for pizzetta not for arab bread maybe it was cheaper.
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Nice video but spare us from looking at Lidl junk. German supermarkets with imitation Italian foods. Only someone with zero palate and knowledge could get there. An Italian would go to a bar or pastry shop or have breakfast at home.
Aw that's too bad because it's actually a great FREE planning tool that we use for all our travels. And how you can access this entire route and all the stops. 😉 But thanks for watching anyways! 🙌
Italy takes full advantage of only the centre-north of the country in terms of tourism. While the south is much less visited. And paradoxically, the south is the best part. There has always been a problem of poor management in the south. If it had been managed for example by Spain (a master country of movida organization) we would be talking about mass tourism, youth, just like Ibiza or Palma de Mallorca.
