Visit to Alberobello

After a delicious breakfast with local fresh fruit including figs off their trees we all met at the van at 9.30am for our day to Alberobello. The first stop on route was a family run olive pressing factory. One of the brothers explained the processing of the olives for a good quality oil. All very interesting. After an oil tasting here we drove on to Alberobello only about half an hour from our Trulli. This was the most divine little place and has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996.

 Built with dry overlapping stones, whitewashed base and a cone shaped roof. This is exactly what we are living in during our weeks stay here. 

Lyn walked us to the top of the town showing us one or two lovely places on the way then set us free with maps to do our own thing. We all met back at the van at 2.15pm and returned to our little Trullis then it was time for swims.

View of the 4 unit Trulli in the background with our pool.

Late afternoon we all met at what they call the tavern which is part of the Spolluto family property just behind the pool. This was an area with a big outdoor woodfired oven and inside a kitchen with a very large dining table. The owner and her cousin prepared a full meal in front of us teaching as they went. They also made their own pasta and included us in the process of forming the pasta shapes.

 Then it was outdoors to the oven to see the whole meal go into the woodfired  oven. Breads, meat veges and the final result was divine. While we waited for the meal to cook one of the sons showed us their vege garden, fruit trees and new grape plants all just for family use. The wine we drank was also made by the family. We then sat down to a beautiful meal with the owners and their 3 sons  a cousin and father/grandfather......an amazing family unit who all have their day jobs but come together in the evenings. A very special experience to share with an Italian family and see how they live and more interesting how they eat.....it went on forever in tasty small portions. The interesting part about our evening experience was that this family are just everyday Italian family home cooks that Chris & Lyn have encouraged to demonstrate their skills to their groups.

The family in the foreground and our group at the far end.