Fabulous little place, couldn’t fault it at all and found it to be exactly as we expected. Francesco was an amazing host even coming to meet us around 1am to let us in the apartment due to a delayed flight. He brought with him a bag of delicious cherries homegrown from his farm which was a lovely touch!
The apartment itself was as expected, the kitchen had everything we needed in there and we had breakfast on the terrace every morning. I slept on the futon bed which was surprisingly very comfortable. There was however some early morning street noise around 7.30 which woke us up - I was fine with it as I have young children and 7.30 was a lie in fit me but my friend doesn’t and she wasn’t too happy about the time.
The town of Polignano a Mare is beautiful, it is only a 5 minute walk if that from the old town gates, and oh my goodness there are so many wonderful little restaurants and bars, gelateria’s, pizzeria’s and focaccaria’s we were spoilt for choice!! We tried as much as we could! Our favourite bar by far was Casa de Mojito which we returned to each night.
The apartment has a recommendations book with Francesco and Jaqueline’s recommendations and a guest book which also had recommendations and we mostly followed these with our choices for restaurants and we never had a bad meal the whole trip! The food is to die for, all natural fresh ingredients and full of flavour!
We went on a couple of trips out too - caught the train and bus to Alberobello via Monopoli, went out to one of the beaches by a little tuk tuk hired at the town gate and took a boat trip around the caves of Polignano. All in all this was a fantastic little holiday away. Thank you so much Francesco and Jaqueline- and it was lovely bumping into you Francesco in Mint! Your neighbours were also very friendly and helpful towards us 😊