day two italia 3.14.07

allora, after a long day in amsterdam, we caught a flight to rome and a midnight train to lecce. i woke up some time in the early morning, maybe 5 or 6 am (we didn't have watches) and began to fall in love with the landscape out the window. green, mountains, valleys, flowers, grape vines, lemon trees, orange trees, and ahhh, the olive trees.

we made it to lecce at 9am and hoped that kevin and holly got the message. i heard a car "beep beep beep" and our southern italy adventure began. since we were now on italian time, we began right away. first up: lecce and all of its fine, old spots. and the bird that said "ciao."

later, we made it to giudignano (i still can't pronounce it right). we had a dinner party with giorgio and mariegracie. kevin did it up salento style - the amazing food, the many many courses, and the eating til 1am. then we ate cake made by giorgio's mom.






our first glimpe at the turquoise sea