Bari

went on a school thing. i found the place very busy! by the way beware when crossing the road. it was realy fun, n hot even tho it was early march! altho the place didnt look much i was touched by the small culture things like little religious pictures placed in the walls, very subtley

it sucked. i waited for the train. it rained.

Stayed here twice, once to get on a ferry to Corfu (well, Athens really), the other to go to Split, Croatia. My ferry destinations were fabulous. Bari. A place created to suck you dry of money. Everything you did here you paid for, including some of the seats in the public square. It’s a necessary evil you go through to get from the train station (i think “Waiting for Godot” was based on that “fun” spot) at Bari to the ferry. You can;t even time your train arrival and ferry departure such that your stay there is less than 8 hours. The fix is in. My suggestion. Buy lots of water and food packages BEFORE you get on the train. Otherwise, be prepared to go through your travel budget a lot quicker than you’d anticipated.

I also traveled to Bari en route to Croatia, and found it to be a pleasant surprise with winding, helter skelter streets in the old town, men diligently smashing octopi on the wharf rocks, and lots of eating and drinking establishments baking in the afternoon sun. Don’t just hang out at the train station or ferry port if you’re passing through—it’s worth your while to do some exploring!

Here is where I took the ferry to Dubrovnik. Slept on the deck, my baggage intertwined with my body, under a plastic table. The old city is amazing (the new city is crap). Saint Nick is buried there; it is a city of stone, narrow alleyways, arches, coves with shrines to Jesus and Mary full of candles and color in the shadows. I walked past a woman making fresh orichiette. There is also a pizza place there with the milkiest, most amazing pizza of which I have never tasted the like. I drank tequila there on the plaza—simply a magical place.