February 6-8 : Bari

Hey all!

So I realise I am extremely behind on this whole blog thing so I decided I would make a post for each week I missed (hopefully I can remember everything.) So For the weekend of February 6-8 we were going to head to Switzerland, but it turned out one of my friends forgot that she had a day trip in Rome on Friday morning, so instead we met her in Rome Friday afternoon and took a trip to the heel of Italy. The train ride was about 6 hours down to Bari, but we stopped at Ancona, which is a precious little town right on the coast. From Ancona to Bari (which was about 4 hours) we were right along the shoreline the entire time, so the beautiful views made the long train ride well worth it! Once at Bari, we had a very difficult time finding our hostel but eventually found it. It turns out the guys phone was on silent because his dog has cancer and they were in the middle of giving him his daily treatment, something of that sort. The next day we just walked around Bari, not sure exactly what to do considering the only reason we went there is because it was the only place in Italy that had sunshine for the weekend and not rain! It was in the middle 50s and sunny the entire weekend which was such a fantastic change from the 20-30 rainy/snowy Perugia. So we literally spent all day Saturday walking around the town shopping and enjoying the views. It was a pretty little wharf town though! Sunday we grabbed some breakfast and hopped on the train and when we arrived in Perugia it was snowing!

Despite the fact we had no idea what to do in Bari mostly because there were no really toursit attractions (or we didn't know of any at least), we had a very relaxing, warm weekend away from chilly Perugia, which was exactly what I needed!