We spent 9 days in the region of Puglia which is the heal of the boot. Our friends Bonnie and Vitopaolo kindly invited us to stay with them at an apartment they rented in Marina di Ginosa. We left on Saturday August 20, it was about a 6 hour drive from Orvieto. The drive went by quickly, we watched the landscape changing from region to region, becoming flatter and more desert like the further south we drove. We arrived in Marina di Ginosa around 4pm, dropped our bags in the apartment and headed straight to the beach. Marina di Ginosa is a beach town full of apartments to rent during the summer. In the winter it has a population of about 3,000 and in the summer it is closer to 100,000.
It was about 105, humid with a clear skies all week. The only way to get relief from the heat was jumping into the Ionic sea. The big difference between the heat in Italy and the heat in the southern U.S. is that the U.S. has air conditioning in every building and house. It's rare to find air conditioning in Italy, so you constantly feel the heat. We had to buy a fan for our bedroom after the first night.
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| Very cool custom bike we passed on the road |
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| Dining area and porch |
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| kitchen |
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| Our bedroom |
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| Bathroom |
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| Bonnie & Vitopaolo's bedroom |
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| Zanzibar beach club, where we rented an umbrella everyday |
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| The beautiful white sand beach |
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