One day our dear friend Moe from Germany (Unfortunately he finished his studies in Lecce, so he left, but you know we will meet soon on our rooftop!) organized a great bycicle trip with the Erasmus students. We woke up very early to catch the train from Lecce to Poggiardo. When the workers in the station saw our crew with 12 bikes they told us that it is not possible to get on the train with them. When the train arrived we understood why – it was so tiny! But the driver was very excited to see us. He asked if we were some kind of a biking squad and said that let’s go! Packing the bikes on the train could be compared to the game of tetris (Simpsons style), but they did it. All 12 bikes in that small train. When we were almost in Castro, we decided with 3 guys to visit one cave under the ground. It’s called La Grotta Zinzulusa. There are many stalagmites and stalagtites from more than 5000 years ago. Since it is not a touristic season right now, we were the only ones visiting and had a private tour with a guide. We stopped many times for a few minutes to admire the beauty of Salento, but our next bigger stop was in Tricase. At first in a port and after we went to chill and eat lunch in a wonderful place between the rocks. We saw an Italian man, who was swimming and also some sunbathing Italians. It was a big surprise, because so far we have seen only foreigners going swimming and Italians staring at them with big eyes. The last sight was in Leuca but in the end we stayed only with Moe and Roma, because the rest of our company took the earlier train home. We bought a bottle of wine, rustico and chocolate …mmmh perfect. We sat on a hill and watched the sunset. It was an amazing moment sitting in front of the meeting point of the ionic and adriatic sea. We were listening to Motta and the lighthouse behind us created a very cool athmosphere and gave us some more wonderful feelings.
IN TOTAL: More than 50 km by bycicle (without musclefever), uncountable and unforgettable marvelous places, and we became heroes… THANKS A LOT MOE! The post is not finished... We are travelling a lot in Salento by hitchhiking, bus and bike and we really like to try new things here. We have „happy tree friends” in Lecce and one of them, Ernesto, has a sailingboat, it’s called Tom-Titi. So one Sunday we went to Porto Cesareo to have a trip. We did not go alone, we had another boat accompanying us. We brought food (pasta and potatoes) and we stopped somewhere near to Porto Sant'Isidoro to have lunch. It was the first time we tried super fresh oysters, they were delicious.
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