Francesco has a lovely apartment very near the old town and 10 min walk to the train station. He greeted us and was a wealth of information and has a good personal guidebook that we used. We loved polignano a mare, swam here ( local beach is rocky though), and caught the train to Monopoli and alberobello( you can get tours to these places too). It is quaint and away from the tourist routes. The only issue we had with the apartment was that the internet was poor but otherwise would recommend staying here