Category Archives: Italy

We had a more leisurely start as it is Sunday and found a bit of rough ground to take the dogs for a walk off lead before breakfast. I was just getting my bike ready to go for my Sunday ride when the church across the way started piping out Christmas carols on loud speakerContinue reading “A glorious winter Sunday – Porto San Paolo, Sardinia, Italy”

This early start again for breakfast this morning before a cycle out at dawn. As we had plans to move up the coast later today. I plotted a route which would take me up hill to a small village called Padru, which we are planning to visit next week. Sadly I had not learned theContinue reading “Pottering – Porto San Paolo, Sardinia, Italy”

Kevin has been dreaming of the seafood spaghetti that he had a couple of weeks ago. So today our mission was simple, we wanted some Italian food, it is Friday after all. We decided not to risk leaving this vital mission to the sole restaurant in Porto Ottiolu which appeared to be opening and seemContinue reading “Mission: Italian Food – San Teodoro, Sardinia, Italy”

We were as usual awake fairly early this morning. Kev peaked through the blind on the accommodation door as he was making tea and said “wow, the sky is on fire over there”. So the kettle was switched off as we all filed out to watch the sunrise on the beach. This east coast hasContinue reading “Giant gorges and big leap north – Porto Ottiolu, Sardinia, Italy”

It was about time we made a move today, so we made the 32km journey to Torre di Bari, beside Bari Sardo. Interestingly, the same journey the Nuraghic people must have made with hundreds of tonnes of Basalt when they built the Nuraghe in Foxi Manna we saw yesterday, according to the information board nearby.Continue reading “On repeat – Bari Sardo, Sardinia, Italy”

We’ve had a quiet day in Foxy Manna. I had built myself up to an epic 40+ mile, 3900ft elevation, cycle up the mountainside for this morning. However we were woken at 4 am by the howling winds. This was another of the BBC weather app’s “moderate winds” that we have experienced previously, that areContinue reading “Moderate wind again – Foxi Manna, Sardinia, Italy”

If you are a regular reader you may remember I said last Saturday, if we don’t leave today we may never leave. Then our ferry on 10th was cancelled. Now the overnight ferry on 17th Dec has no cabins left. That leaves departures on Christmas Eve or New Years’ eve at 5pm to arrive ChristmasContinue reading “Plan made (for now) – Foxi Manna, Sardinia, Italy”

We’ll be honest, when we saw the blue skies despite the terrible forecast and the calm seas as we drove along the coast yesterday, we were a little bit cynical about our cancelled ferry. However overnight last night Grimaldi ferries proved they had much more reliable forecast than we get on BBC Weather app, asContinue reading “The calm after the storm – Porto Corallo, Sardinia, Italy”

So today was the day for our ferry to Sicily. We started about our normal preparations for the day and then realised, horror of horrors, that we had run out of data on our Wi-Fi. So if I went to find the Vodafone shop to try and sort out some more data, whilst Kev tookContinue reading “Another change of plan – Spiaggia de Feraxi, Sardinia, Italy”

So we got to indulge in Aperitif s in Cagliari with the hoards of Christmas shoppers last night. The streets were filled with people and lit up with festive lights, it was a lovely atmosphere. It seemed everyone was drinking Aperol in the many restaurants and bars, so we thought we should join in withContinue reading “City living – Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy”