Nardò

Close enough to add, with almost no extra driving, where the evening passeggiato is still mostly locals rather than visitors.

it might mean swapping a Trullo stay in Alberobello for the countryside around Locorotondo instead geographically almost interchangeable and architecturally just as rewarding and considerably calmer even in August Cisternino and Martina Franca do similar work recognisably part of the same Trullo and whitewashed landscape everyone came to see without the cues that Alberobello's UNESCO status has earned it From a Salento base, the equivalent move is treating Lecce and Otranto or Gallipoli as the anchor days, and then giving at least one day to somewhere the official numbers say Americans are barely visiting yet, Galatina, Nardo, or head all the way down south to Castro, Marina Serra, Santa Maria dell'Iuca.

Matera, of course, deserves its own mention here.

It's extraordinary and an easy detour from Bari or a central Puglia base.

Trusting in God and his Holy Mother, whose powerful aid he had frequently implored, He received minor orders without previous examination, January 30th, 1627, subdeaconship February 27th of the same year, and deaconship March 20th.

The examination on the latter occasion he passed in a providential manner, for the passage of the gospel beginning with the words, Blessed is the womb that bore thee, which the bishop of Nardo gave him to explain, was the only one he had learned by long study and could well interpret.

He was finally ordained priest, March 28, 1628, by the right Reverend John Baptist Dettie, Bishop of Castro.

This prelate was so pleased with the learning of the friars whom he had examined first, that he considered the others, among whom was Joseph, to be equally well prepared, and ordained them without examination.

I mean, Lecce is definitely number one, no question asked.

But, uh, there are also other towns, other small cities like Nardò and Maglie, which are also bigger towns, and, you know, there's life all year long.

If you're looking for a holiday property, you wanna be, yeah, you wanna be near, near the coast.

You wanna be near the water.

I had sold my home.

I, I had an apartment in London when I was living here, but after COVID, it was very difficult to manage, and I kinda thought, "Well, maybe I should buy somewhere in Puglia just as an investment for a l- little bit of fun to meet people that are coming on vacation." And it worked well with, um, what I do with the Puglia Guys because that way I could meet people that were coming on vacation, ask them why they chose Puglia, et cetera, et cetera.

And when I was looking to buy, I was thinking about buying Nardò.

Now I always say Nar- it's not Nardò, it's Nardò.