Puglia and Brindisi to Greece

So, we left the Wests in Tuscany, to continue their family holiday in peace (!), intending to drive a couple of hundred Km and stop by a lake, as it happened; they both fell asleep, so I kept driving...

Just down the road from Bagni di Lucca is this fantastic old bridge:



We stopped off for an hour or so at Orvieto, a walled city on a hill with tumble-down windy streets and an incongruous cathedral:



Heading for Bari, it got to midnight, so we stopped to sleep at an Autostrade Stopover (services), and continued in the morning.

Eventually we found a place to park for the night, by the sea; a swim before BBQ dinner, and sleep to the sound of waves slopping into the little caves below.




Having found we needed to wait another day to get on the ferry to Igoumenitsa, Greece; we found another overnight stopover place by the sea;


Breakfast with a nice view of the Aegean: