Molfetta

School has a mid-term break for carnival, although many use it as a ski week. After last year’s week in Sicily, we headed south again to Puglia to escape Luxembourg’s near zero winter temperatures. We took a cheapo Ryanair flight from Frankfurt-Hahn to Bari, where we hired Ingrid’s favourite car, the Fiat Cinque Cento. Our first stopover was the twin city to Fremantle, Molfetta, from where Mamma Fedele’s family hails.

We had a typical long, late and loud local Sunday lunch at a highly recommended restaurant by the sea. Ingrid’s prawns were almost Freo standard and my seafood pasta was excellent. To walk this off, we wandered around the harbour and the original, walled old town. It being Sunday of Carnevale week, the streets were full of children dressed in colourful costumes, a church procession carrying a gilded saint statue, street parties and the usual passegiata participants. For dinner we had one of the best pizzas we’ve had for a long time, followed by a late evening gelato – yumm!.

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