Puglia, Italy - Ticking off my Bucket List!

Hey guys, thanks for joining me on my latest adventure. I'm in Puglia in Italy, I'm so excited to be here. Apologies for any background noise though but I'm just sat on the rooftop in our lovely little apartment in Poligano Amare. I probably most definitely pronounced that wrong but this is the most spontaneous trip. Literally decided a few days ago to come here on a girls trip and therefore my pronunciation, my research, everything is a bit out if I'm honest. So I'm going to just write the names of everywhere on the screen and also of course there will be a blog post to go alongside this vlog and everything's going to be written in the description box down below. So thanks for bearing with me by the way, I know I've been off YouTube for so long. Most of you know why so we're just going to glide over that. It feels good to be chatting away with you again and I really want to take you everywhere with me on this trip because I struggled to find the information that I needed to do this trip myself. But we're here for two nights, I'm going to give you a room tour in a minute because this is the best find ever. Honestly, like the view of this rooftop, super super lucky. I'm kind of borderline shouting at the moment because there is construction going on opposite us, that's the only downside but otherwise this is honestly the perfect little find to stay in. So we flew into Bari, we drove here, it took about an hour, we pre-booked our car and I pre-booked an automatic which I would recommend because the roads when you get closer to here are a bit windy so it's just easier to navigate. And yeah, here for two nights, two nights like in the main beach town centre, the sort of insta-taggable places. It's so annoying because I really wanted to open this vlog like in a pretty place but the noise is too much right so let's go inside. So yeah, two nights here and then two nights out in the country and I'm just going to hopefully show you as much as I can as and when we do it and yeah, back on YouTube excited. And the reason that I'm completely made up and dressed up and all that jazz right now by the way is because this is like the day after we've arrived so I can give you a tour now but let me tell you, it is messy. But still, you'll get a vibe for the place. In fact let's go back out and I'll do the rooftop for like a proper little tour and then I'll show you everything else. This is the upstairs area. We have the kitchen, coffee pods were here when we got here, fabulous. And then this is the main bathroom so you've got a shower, toilet sink, wonderful. And then this is the rooftop. I'm sorry but is that not the coolest view? I love this. We didn't even know it had this space to be honest but what an absolute treat. How sick. So amazing. By the way this hotel was 198 euros for two nights. So impressed by that. So basically less than 100 each for us. And we've each got our own room, bathroom, like the works. Swooping past the mess, ooh and also the roses that Sophie and I were given last night. Get us. This is the bedroom. Kind of, I mean I don't need to show you too much, you have the wardrobe space, really wonderful mirror, FYI ladies, chair. But the balcony once again. Every single floor has a balcony. It's so cool. Going to go and grab some dinner now in the town near us, just literally walk out, grab something. We're just going to grab a slice of pizza or something like that and then come back to the room ready to explore tomorrow. Good morning. Right I feel like you literally just saw my face two seconds ago when I was interviewing this vlog but we had dinner last night. This place, oh my goodness let me tell you and I'm going to talk you through how to kind of plan this trip bit by bit through the vlog but you have to stay in the town if you can because this area is very much a drive from place to place because there's so many gorgeous spots which I hope we'll see most of them during our trip here. But the town is just so pretty. Everything looks like something out of a movie scene. Honestly like you have to almost touch things to check that they're real. It's so pretty and we had every intention of just stumbling across a grab a slice of pizza, you know, grab a bottle of beer type vibe and sit outside somewhere but we found the cutest little restaurant. We had a little starter, we had a pasta main, a glass of lovely wine from the region and it was like 28 euros each and when I show you or when you see the setting of this place it could have easily been like a hundred euros each and we'd have been happy to pay it. It was so pretty and then we just grabbed a drink at a bar, came back to the flat and slept and woke up and here we are. We're ready to explore today. We are gagging to get in the water, wander around the town, grab a pizza for lunch because you know we're in Italy and then this afternoon we're going on a boat trip. So yeah prepare to see lots of the sea and lots of excitement as we jump in it. So as I said at the beginning of the video about renting a car it really is a must because even things like coming on a boat trip we had to drive and park to come to the place where they pick you up on the boat so yeah it really is a must. I've not seen one taxi while I've been here. Definitely get an auto though because the roads are nice and tight and spindly but yeah I found these guys on Instagram so you can either do a private tour where it's like just you two on the balcony and construction started as standard. That was really good let me tell you like so worth 30 euros. So you just go up and down the coastline and you go into a couple of the little caves. There's nothing like crazy wow factor but it's just really nice seeing the coastline from the sea out you know and we drove past the restaurant that we're going to tonight. I'm so excited about this by the way. I've been wanting to go to this restaurant since you know when you see something on Instagram you're like one day I'm gonna go there. This was like me like five years ago and turns out it's literally like two minutes walk from from here so very excitingly we're gonna go there. We don't have a hairdryer though neither of us packed one so we're just gonna sit up here and let nature do its thing and then yeah go for dinner. Good morning from me and my messy bed. So um wonderfully perfect timing wise my GoPro conked out on me whilst we were having dinner but let me tell you it was everything. It was the dream dinner that I had imagined it would be and I would do it all over again it was so nice. Guys I'm gonna insert any sort of clip that I have because we were taking like Instagram you know reels and videos and pics and whatnot so even though they're gonna look really weird just like centrally on the screen right now it's just to show you how gorgeous this restaurant was because it really was amazing. Also the food delicious so it was 195 euros per person but you got three courses you could choose three savoury courses or like a starter uh main and dessert we went for the the savoury and everything was amazing. Obviously I had veggie, no complaints, we had a bottle of wine, the service was really really good. We had a couple of like rude people when we were trying to take pictures on the balcony but I mean let's just let them live their lives and they know who they are um but yeah it was honestly amazing and so nice that we could just walk there from here. Highly recommend it it's a once in a lifetime dinner reservation for sure and yes it is pricey but genuinely for the ambience for the food quality the service I really do think it was absolute value for money like genuinely I've spent more in a London restaurant and not had anything like you know that kind of atmosphere um really really great and definitely try and do what we did in terms of getting there for sunset because we just had like seven million different colours throughout the night of all of the sky you know like it went from pink and then it went to this really beautiful like hazy orange then it went to that midnight blue like yeah all round great night loved it sorry I didn't film as much as I wish I could have um but today we're actually leaving this hotel so we're gonna have a little wander around right now grab a coffee um and then drive to Ostuni but we actually have like a four hour gap in between checking out of here and into our new place so where we're going to explore we're not quite sure we're going to sit at breakfast because the wi-fi here is is terrible we're going to sit at breakfast and like work out whether to go to another beach another town but uh obviously I'll keep you guys informed and uh off we go for a coffee first of all every street I swear honestly like a film set so I know I've already put some videos in this vlog so far as we've been walking through this town I've mentioned how pretty it is but now just like face-to-face action this is the prettiest little town it's so cute all of the buildings all different colors and yeah okay so I know now we're heading out to the view of that beautiful uh beach that we were at yesterday but yeah just every street is like film scene worthy like all the little alleys all the little windows even like the way they put the pants down the balcony so cute so cute oh do we have a few to ourselves she's a walking she's a walking we actually just stumbled across as we were walking this cute little restaurant and there is a five euro cover charge however the view is quite something so we were more than willing to pay for it okay good morning um so last time I was chatting to you was when we were leaving Poligano Amare and we are now in Ostuni we're staying in this really lovely little country retreat I'll then show you around in a minute but yesterday we had time to kill because check-in here was like four o'clock and we left there at 10 so we decided to go to a beach we just hit up google for like the best beach club because we really wanted you know the setup we wanted the lounges we wanted to be able to order food and drinks and that kind of thing because we knew we were going to be there all day so the one that we found had the best reviews was Porto Cesario and my goodness were those views or reviews rather correct it was insane it's like a little Maldives beach in Italy it was beautiful um took us about an hour and a half to drive there and then an hour drive back to here but yeah I highly recommend it we paid a minimum spend for the bed so you can use it on food and drinks and towel hire and that kind of thing but honestly the water and it's really warm as well and it's crystal clear highly highly highly recommend so yeah we're going to come back and relax here in the afternoon um but yeah really nice the only thing I would say we had a bit of a snafu when we booked in and I'm only sharing this not to be somebody that's you know moaning about the resort but just to like let you guys know if you book a villa with two bedrooms it doesn't automatically give you access to the two bedrooms so when we arrived here they blocked one of the rooms so bizarre so basically they say that if you book if you want the two bedrooms you have to pay like the four person price which is madness to us because you'll see when I give you a little room tour let me step out the light for a second that it's a two-bed villa so it's like why would we book one room within the villa so that was weird so when you're booking via booking.com you have to specify that you want both of the bedrooms apparently we ended up paying I think another 100 euros for them to just open the room madness um is what it is at this point but yeah I'll give you a little room tour when it's tidier because we slept there and we're about to head into town top tip definitely come early it is a Saturday however and it's like 11am at this point we didn't realize how far it was a and b we did not anticipate it I feel like when you see here in all of the guidebooks on instagram like it looks like a very white washed desolate town but it's actually really vibrant and fun and there's loads of little shops and cafes right we've just gone from scene to scene it's gonna make no sense but trust me when I tell you it makes no sense to me either we had to leave the Trulli that we're in in Ostuni because of a huge confrontation with the owner um quite a scary one if I'm honest and uh one that we will be reporting to booking.com and that's all I'm gonna say about it because I'm a lady um but yeah we ended up moving our Trullis we're now in Albarabero what happened was because this is now the morning after that I'm chatting to you about it we left the villa um abruptly booked another place and then we went for dinner in Ostuni which was really really pretty we went to one of the very famous restaurants it was amazing and you can't book a reservation there so you have to just rock up we waited for half an hour which was fine because we just got a drink in a nearby bar um the food was amazing it's like a I want to say tapas but obviously that's sacrilege because we're in Italy aperitivo there you go that's the word I was looking for so it's an aperitivo you get just like snacky food but amazing hearty like decent grub you know it was really nice and then we had of course an aperitivo we had a prosecco um like mint mix but really pretty highly recommend it it was cold and it was windy but we powered through and it was super super pretty and then we drove to our new booking um so we're here now in Albarabero which is a really gorgeous unesco world heritage site we are in the center and we booked this super last minute it's so cute it's like a two-bedroom truly it's called truly vacation i'm going to give you a little tour of the room now this one was 176 pounds um for the two bedrooms however that's technically for four people so it is definitely um a thing with these villas or the trulies um in Italy that if you want the two bedrooms you have to pay for the two bedrooms so yeah so 176 pounds for one night but technically for four people and it's really freaking cute though let me give you a full on tour this is the kind of like in the living room bedroom that's where I slept and it was so cute because look you've got this amazing like dome above you as you're sleeping little window bed was super super comfy and then this is the bedroom same sort of vibe which I really like because you know when you stay somewhere with a friend or if you were two couples you kind of both want this experience of waking up in the dome so I really love the fact that both bedrooms have that and then this is the entrance I'll show you in a minute so you can see we're right in the center this is the kitchen area super cute you've got teas and coffees coffee making machine and teas all of our luggage this is the bathroom which I really really love nice hot warm shower and toilet bidet that leads out to like a tiny little courtyard area and then this is the living room space how cute so yeah we certainly lucked out with a very bad situation turned in a great one because I've always wanted to stay like always wanted to stay and a little truly so yeah this was our last night staying here so it worked out kind of nice even though the experience was very traumatic but yeah that's actually the end of the vlog now because we are going to drive back to the airport so thank you for joining me on this adventure and it certainly was one I feel like the vlog was all here there all over the place but any questions or anything like that then obviously comment I will be writing a blog post which is going to be far more detailed so we'll have like a step-by-step of where we stayed and all the names of the restaurants the name of car hire like the information that I would want if I was trying to recreate the same trip but yes off we go to the airport now thanks for watching bye