Today we went to Ballero Market and bought sea bream ( quite expensive) , chicken ( much cheaper ) ,vegetables & some grapes and smallish sharon fruit. Jannet still not so well so she stayed in while we went to Piazza Bellini . Thank goodness, we are in a spacious apartment so that she has…

Today we decided to take it slow too haha . Went to Ballero Market and bought dried herbs and halal butcher to get chicken to make chicken soup. Jannet not so well so we thought we make chicken soup . Rahiyah and I took a walk to Orto Botanico di Palermo which took us 20…

We did nothing much yesterday . I was feeling feverish so I just slept and slept the whole day of Saturday . Not sure why I was feeling feverish . Maybe a touch of too much sun , not drinking enough  water or being over tired . Maybe a combination of all 3 factors .…

We got a flight ( RyanAir ) from Bari to Palermo . The flight time was 1 hr 10 mins so not too long on the plane . But both Rahiyah and myself fell asleep . I think we both more tired than we realized . Met my old classmate , Jannet at Palermo Airport…

Took a longish drive from Bari to Lecci which was aproximately 150 km away . This took about 1 hr 45 mins to drive . This approximately the same distance from KL to Melaka. Rahiyah drove the first leg. She is much more competent than me so drives much faster than me . I drove…

I drove to Ostuni which is approximately 85 -90 km from Bari . This took maybe 1.5 hrs as I was driving in the slow lane .Rahiyah at the helm of navigating through google maps, she is pretty good and calm even when I have driven through a wrong turn . It really helps to…

We decided to go and look at those Trullo ( singular ) houses at Alberobello , which is about 1 hour drive from Bari . Its not too far . A little history on Trulli houses are traditional limestone dwellings with iconic conical roofs built without mortar, originating thousands of years ago in the Apulia…

We started driving to Matera which is approximately 65 km away. I drove and Rahiyah navigated which worked fine . We used the highway to get to Matera and considering the traffic was quite good . We had to park elsewhere as Matera is ZTL zone so we did that. We got a shuttle bus…

We arrived very late by train from Bologna into Bari yesterday at 10.30 pm. We left Bologna at 2.57pm so it was a 7 hour train journey . We had an earlier mishap as we had boarded the wrong train ! Instead of boarding the 9939 (train number , most important ) italiano treno ,…

We took a italo treno ( train, this is the name of the private Italian train company ) as compared to Trenitalia , owned by the Italian government from  Venice to Bologna . The train ride was for 1 hr 45 mins . We stayed in an Airbnb which is quite quirky , centrally located…