{"id":1997,"date":"2019-05-25T17:49:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T16:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2019-05-25T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T17:45:19","slug":"up-to-ostuni-and-up-some-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/2019\/05\/25\/up-to-ostuni-and-up-some-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to Ostuni and up some more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday I wasn\u2019t sure I was going to do this loop to Ostuni as it is the hilliest ride with the longest distance – about 50km – because my back has been bothering me.<\/p>\n

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I have learned to think in km because it makes you feel you\u2019ve gone further!<\/p>\n

However I am very glad we did as we had wonderful views.<\/p>\n

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And we found some road dogs<\/p>\n

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Back on the Appia Traiana we found a notice showing the Roman map of the ancient main roads of southern Italy – you can also see the Dalmatian coast at the top and Sicily and North Africa at the bottom.<\/p>\n

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On the way up the hill to Ostuni I obviously had to stop a bit to take photos.<\/p>\n

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We walked around the old white medieval town – a bit touristy but nothing like Alberobello – apparently it\u2019s very popular with English ex-pats.<\/p>\n

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We went in a church-cum-museum which had millenia of pottery shards and stone tools dating back to Greco – Roman times and to the Neolithic first farmers from 10-12000 BC. Some were from 40,000 BC.<\/p>\n

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Their most significant exhibit was the tomb and lovingly laid out remains of a Neolithic young pregnant woman with a beaded headdress and shell-necklace that had been carbon dated to 28000 BC.<\/p>\n

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The cathedral is very pretty on the outside but has had a baroque make over inside. Unlike Monopoli they can\u2019t have had the cash for real marble and everything you see is painted – pretty convincing.<\/p>\n

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We found olives that I liked!<\/p>\n

\"Ostuni<\/p>\n

Ostuni\u2019s city wall date from Norman times<\/p>\n

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And on the way back we went up a lot more hills but had a wonderful view over the olive groves and to the Adriatic.<\/p>\n

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We stopped with a balcony view over the fields so I could do a sketch and we saw more wonderful flowers<\/p>\n

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We also met a very pretty and friendly donkey (the only one we saw- tractors have replaced donkeys here)<\/p>\n

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\"Cisternino<\/p>\n

Back by 5 and a very welcome swim in the pool! And another chat to the amazing mini goats. I am their friend because i rescued one when we arrived yesterday who had got his leg stuck in a bucket.<\/p>\n

\"Fasano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I wasn\u2019t sure I was going to do this loop to Ostuni as it is the hilliest ride with the longest distance – about 50km – because my back has been bothering me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.holloway.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}