Mondoworld

Well, we’re actually using Air France for flight – a lot of flight. It was that eternal trade-off between many hours in the air, many stopovers and price. Price won. We leave for Abu Dhabi on Boxing Day, then for Paris after that, then for Milan after that.

Milan is the stepping-off point for a couple of nights’ visit to Como and our friend, Linda. Before we head back to Milan and onto an Easyjet to Bari. Now Bari, I must confess is not the actual place we were intending to head. Brindisi is the place our hire car will be waiting patiently for us at the airport, but the airport code for Bari is BRI and the airport code for Brindisi is BDS and the budget air fares I booked to Bari could not be changed – so Bari, here we come! We will catch a train from Bari to Brindisi to collect our little Fiat to drive to Lecce and we will speak of this airplane booking debacle no more.

Lecce is further south than we have been before – near the bottom of the heel of the boot of Italy. It’s rich in baroque architecture and is surrounded by places we intend to take daily drives to. We will stay in an AirBnB in the old part of the town in a former Episcopal Chapel.

Right now, we’re in that phase where we wonder how the hell we can get everything done before we leave. We will of course, but we still wonder how.

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