We were on the way to Ostuni, but also looking for a car wash. Did you notice the state of our camper? Dirty is an understatement!! The “Old Town” of Ostuni is built on top of a hill and still fortified by the ancient walls. Its commonly referred to as “the White Town” for its …
We visited Alberobello, famous for its unique trullo buildings, traditional Apulian dry stone huts with a conical roof, by going on a hike into the countryside and back to the village. Many tourists come here in summer, but at this time of the year, it was very quiet. Trulli were generally constructed as temporary field shelters and storehouses or as permanent dwellings …
South of Monopoli we were looking for the Ancient city of Egnazia, at the Via Traiana. Outside the museum we found the necropolis, which was interesting to compare with the ones we had seen in Turkey. After a short walk we reached the remains of the town near the sea. The city was already destroyed …
From Bari, we made our way to a fascinating castle, built during the 1240s by King Frederick II, who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily. It has neither a moat nor a drawbridge and maybe it never was intended as a defensive fortress. We arrived in the afternoon and found a hidden spot to park on the backside …
We had crossed Greece in 2 days and took the ferry from Igoumenitsa to Bari. We needed a rapid test, which we got at the pharmacy next to the port. Together with the green pass, we were able to get our tickets and were waiting patiently with many trucks for the midnight ferry. When the …
The weather was awful, so we kept driving as we had decided to go back to Greece and then to Italy. We took the shortest route via Çanakkale and the ferry. What we needed for the border was a PCR test. As we both had Covid in December, we were fiercely hoping that we now …
When we arrived in Izmir, the third largest city in Turkey with around 4.4 million inhabitants, it was only drizzling, and we decided to go for a stroll through the bazar and along the bay. The old Turkish and partly ancient city center was largely destroyed in the earthquake of 1957. One of the landmarks …
Our second time in Fethiye, we wanted to visit the abandoned Greek village of Kalaköy and Lycian rock tombs. But we were not sure, if the weather would allow us to visit anything. When we arrived at Kalaköy, a village in the mountains between the bay of Fethiye and the coast, it was pouring with …
The gods meant it good with us, despite a bad weather forecast we had the perfect day for a hike to the Simena castle. We started from Üçağız, from where you could also go on a boat tour to explore the sunken city at the island of Kekova. We did that trip from Demre during …
We thought that we are going to visit an ancient town we haven’t visited before, but already at a T-junction in the valley, we realised, that we had been here 2 years ago. Already on the way up, we decided to visit Rhodiapolis again. The town was founded by colonists from Rhodes. The army of Alexander …
