#mypugliaexperience

[gm-travel-designer]

Feel the summer breeze and allow yourself to surrender to the pleasure of calmness .....in the heart of Puglia countryside !! #happyday #traveldesigner #tailormadetour #pugliafood #primitivowine #mypugliaexperience #winetasting🍷 #cheesetasting🧀 #cookinglessons #streetfoodmarket #tours #ilovepuglia #pugliabedda #volgopuglia #handmadepasta #pugliafood #oliveharvest #oliveoiltasting #smallgroupstours #manduria #bari #fasano #brindisi #strascinati #matera #oldtown #countrysideandfarmlife #masseria #countryresort #countryhotel Have you already planned your next holidays? What about a fabulous Puglia !! For a exclusively tour in Puglia or for info please do not hesitate to contact us: Traveldesignergm@gmail.com m.brullo@diplomats.com @GMTravelDesigners @massimobrullo45 https://www.instagram.com/p/CB0G6a9nbCi/?igshid=1f5a1hruqgizs

[luciaiaiao]

"Es la historia de un amor, como no hay otro igual" ✨🌾 #pantonePuglia #whatitalyis #slowlife #slowlifestyle #goldenlight #goldenhour #yellow #Puglia #weareinpuglia #mypugliaexperience #lighthunter #sunsetseeker #Monopoli #calamarena #summerlight #musicquotes #bolero #historiadeunamor #shotoniphone (presso Calamarena)

[amnesiafe]

Somewhere only we know 🇮🇹 #puglia #putignano #pugliagram #igerspuglia #igpuglia #yallerspuglia #weareinpuglia #mypugliaexperience #visitpuglia #vivopuglia #thisispuglia #top_pugliaphoto #southitaly #amepiaceilsud #instapuglia #apulia #apuliatravels #suditalia #loves_puglia (presso Puglia, Italy)

[designme2011]

#designme #traveldesignme #adriatico #sea #Lamaforca #ostuni #brindisi #carovigno #a2passidamesagne #puglia #nikon #summer #relax #time #italy #landscape #enjoyinglife #internetofwellness #wellnesstourism #relaxyourself #ontour #pugliagram #mypugliastory #mypugliaexperience #visitpuglia #visitpugliamyland #mypuglia #pugliamoremio #terradipuglia #altosalento #salento #igerspuglia #igersbrindisi #brindisiview #ig_puglia #ostuni #ostunibeach (presso Lamaforca)

[spacesecure]

Trulli @masseriasantalachicca • if you want to really fall in love with Apulia, this is the place. — #pugliagram #mypugliaexperience #weareinpuglia — . . . . . #naturephoto #main_vision #landscape_captures #awesome_earthpix #natureaddict #rsa_rural #awesomeearth #skyporn #sunsetsniper #skylovers #sunrise_and_sunsets #sunsets #sunset_hub #sunsetlovers #instasunsets #all_sunsets #ig_italy #instaitaly #igersitaly #loves_italia #fujifeed #myfujifilm #fujixclub https://ift.tt/2NzIBvG

[mimmosmouthfuls]

Superfarcitosamentevolissima focaccia #myfoodexperience #mimmogourmet #mymmogourmet #thecommensale #mingucciogourmet #breatheinpuglia #weareinpugliatour #lifestyle #echiaccherenoncenevogliono #EatBuyLearnShare #localguides #lovelymimmo #googlemaps #foodporn #foodies #italianfood #googlelocalguides #smellmyday #smellmylife #smellmykitchen #weareinpuglia #weareinpugliawithmimmo #ApuliaTasting #mypugliaexperience https://www.instagram.com/p/CFnN0UBiSh5/?igshid=1gtlemcgbgpc4

[godere-la-vita]

Today exactly one year ago. I had the best week of my life with moments and people that I will cherish forever! Thank you Sports & Nature group! ❤️🇮🇹🍕🍝 #romeehappydays #Italy #puglia #puglianature #mypugliaexperience

[greenalmonds]

#6 '...I'm sorry, when was this built again ?'

Dearest Puglia,

 I can’t help but get a feeling that my last letter could have offended you. With all the superlatives I’ve used to describe your dreamy features you could think that I am just into you because of your looks. Let me remind you, I was on the Arts & Culture itinerary with MPE, so I know how rich you are, inside and out. So much so, that I couldn’t even write down everything I’ve been told about you. So much information !

 Girl, you look good but you’re old ! What a heavy past, can you even remember everything that happened to you ? If I had had to write down all the informations flowing around, I’d have spent more time with my nose in my little black book than really experiencing, and this trip was called #MyPugliaExperience, right ?

So my brain & hand got selective, and I mainly wrote down the things that caught my attention, or that I thought were particularly interesting.

To prove it to you : I’m gonna share some of what I wrote with you. Just some, because it could either be irrelevant or inapropriate, and the rest, people should meet you and find out for themselves. This is just how real I can get.

 From El Castel del Monte, a mystic place : this was my favourite castle of the trip, and one of my favourite visit because of the magic surrounding the place. Federico II  was very curious man (therefore interesting) and had diverses hobbies such as mathematics, astronomy, sciences. 'He built El Castel Del Monte around the year 1200, accordind to astronomical laws. The 8 towers, representing the infinity, plus the circle form evokes the power of finite work combined with the infinite skies. Inside the central octogonal, you can see the path to a water point that could have been the path to purification. A scripture on the wall reads ‘Circulo Devilo’, which means in latin 'the devil's circle'. In the room behind it, there are squares and circles where men stood while wizards performed spells on them. Can you feel how cool this castle is ? Definitely the one to check out when visiting you. 

 From Bari, 'funny' story : The Castello Normanno & Svevo – Federico II (him again, who re-built the castle in the 13th ) invited St François d’Assise for diner, and offered him a room in the North East tower, where a naked woman was waiting for him. Federico was hoping to try out François’s faith but François didn’t cave. Still, the guy was strongly tempted : he decided to lay down on a bed of burning ashes to keep his hands off of her… A bit extreme don’t you think ? And, for some sexist reason : the girl apologized for her ‘enticing’ behaviour and light manners( not for being used as an instrument by manhood, no).

From Bari again, (less interesting but kind of amusing) : Today we ‘learned’ how to make orrechiette, traditionnal pasta of Puglia. The lady doing it was going so much faster than me – I apparently expected myself to be a pasta genius – It was so hard, I felt like I ruined her bash of dough. I did.

  From Alberobello, a legend : This house is the only house with a double roof. One says that two brothers fell in love with the same woman and decided to join their house to share her. Obviously : she left both of them soon after.

 From Grottaglie, the city of ceramics & street art : About the painting of ceramics : Each color comes from a metal, and changes its shades when put in the oven. Pink is iron and turns red ; Lilac is cobalt and turns blue ; black is mangenese and stays black. I have a things for colors.

www.giorgiodipalma.com : website of one the great ceramist found in Grottaglie, also co-creator of the street art festival of the town. I bought a light green ceramic tape from him. 

CONFESSION : There are some others things that I wrote, but to keep on the honesty track, I’ll admit that it was more to look like I was paying attention when I was goofing around with my travel mates. For example, when the guide caught me spraying Evian water on Laura’s face (not just to refresh her but for fun), I suddenly asked her a question. Asking a question has always been my got-to trick in class.

‘When was this built again ?’

The answer is : from 1518 til 1695, and it was about la Basilica di Santa Croce of Lecce. You can find other lonely dates  or facts in my notebook,  I can’t make sense of some of them : ‘Pumo like a flowerblossom’ (if anyone knows what this is in reference to, please let me know) I did fancy La Basilica Di Santa Croce, because looking back on it, it is definitely the most beautiful church we saw – in my opinion – but it was our last day, our last day all together, Arts&Culture folks, and we were a bit un-concerned, excited, feeling like we needed to enjoy the time together we had left. Perhaps we decided to use whatever space we had left in our brain for memories, smiles and laughs. No room available for dates and facts.

  So, dearest Puglia, you are not just a body. You’re also a brain. Got the whole package. How could I not give in to you ? I knocked on your perfect door and discovered a palace of rich stories, where modern art exist on old walls, ancient ways practiced by men and women of today, time leaving proud scars in the present.

Grazzie : for sharing parts of your story with me, and allowing it to be now, a part of mine.

Do I dare quoting Josh Groban ? Yes. You raise me up.

[acamerawithastory]

196/365.

I'm sad. There is no one to wake up with, no one to immediately talk to or whine about the fact that we have to get up early. But I have my pictures to comfort me, and I'm having loads of them (1000 to be precisely). So I start editing all day long, seeing pictures on Facebook, posting pictures online and everything. And oh my god, we got this nice groupshot from our paparazzo (the one that's on here: credits go to him) and I absolutely love it. As I said before, I was really really worried about the photos and video (I still am) but I think I might be in peace with it. It has to happen, that's the reason I was allowed to go. And he's a good photographer, so they might be not so bad.

Eveningtime is datetime! I could meet again with Aartina and I cannot say how much I miss that girl. We have so much fun together, and we can go on talking for like.. forever. So we met at 8, and after a while, she wanted to know the time. She took her phone, made a really weird face and then put her phone back. What's the time? She made -again- this funny face. You don't wanna know.

[gm-travel-designer]

Feel the summer breeze and allow yourself to surrender to the pleasure of calmness .....in the heart of Puglia countryside !! #happyday #traveldesigner #tailormadetour #pugliafood #primitivowine #mypugliaexperience #winetasting🍷 #cheesetasting🧀 #cookinglessons #streetfoodmarket #tours #ilovepuglia #pugliabedda #volgopuglia #handmadepasta #pugliafood #oliveharvest #oliveoiltasting #smallgroupstours #manduria #bari #fasano #brindisi #strascinati #matera #oldtown #countrysideandfarmlife #masseria #countryresort #countryhotel Have you already planned your next holidays? What about a fabulous Puglia !! For a exclusively tour in Puglia or for info please do not hesitate to contact us: Traveldesignergm@gmail.com m.brullo@diplomats.com @GMTravelDesigners @massimobrullo45 https://www.instagram.com/p/CB0GZ_Nl8t_fmrMxqBdt2SiswvNdj6v6a9zLR40/?igshid=1oefgwuabod6h

[luciaiaiao]

A confondere i miei sogni e la realtà e questo veleno ormai è la mia medicina se cado dal cielo mi prende e mi riporta ancora una volta in cima ☁️🌊�� #pantonePuglia #whatitalyis #goldenhour #Puglia #mypugliaexperience #weareinpuglia #sunset #seasunset #cloudscape #vsco #slowlife #livefolk #exitstrategy #goldenlight #lighthunter #gargano #lesina #musicquotes #frahquintale #gravita (presso Lido "La Sirena" - Lesina Marina)

[designme2011]

#designme #traveldesignme #adriatico #sea #Lamaforca #ostuni #brindisi #carovigno #a2passidamesagne #puglia #nikon #summer #relax #time #italy #landscape #enjoyinglife #internetofwellness #wellnesstourism #relaxyourself #ontour #pugliagram #mypugliastory #mypugliaexperience #visitpuglia #visitpugliamyland #mypuglia #pugliamoremio #terradipuglia #altosalento #salento #igerspuglia #igersbrindisi #brindisiview #ig_puglia #ostuni #ostunibeach (presso Lamaforca)

[ilarysgrill]

Come se fossi con voi durante #mypugliaexperience 💙💙💙 (presso Sant'isidoro (Le))

[mimmosmouthfuls]

Tubettini al minestrone #myfoodexperience #mimmogourmet #mymmogourmet #thecommensale #mingucciogourmet #breatheinpuglia #weareinpugliatour #lifestyle #echiaccherenoncenevogliono #EatBuyLearnShare #localguides #lovelymimmo #googlemaps #foodporn #foodies #italianfood #googlelocalguides #smellmyday #smellmylife #smellmykitchen #weareinpuglia #weareinpugliawithmimmo #ApuliaTasting #mypugliaexperience https://www.instagram.com/p/CFm_mCii-fG/?igshid=1spayjt42lezh

[godere-la-vita]

#tbt to last summer. Had a great experience and love meeting new people! I miss Italy and everyone! #Italy #MyPugliaExperience #Puglia #PugliaNature

[greenalmonds]

#4 Letter 'I'll sleep in the bus'

Dearest Puglia,

I’ve had the weirdest dream about you and #MyPugliaExperience – or MPE as we folks say now – a few nights ago. All the storytellers got into Castel Del Monte, only it was like Hogwarts : it was a school about you and magic, which go hand in hand. Vincenzo Foresti was Dumbledore, probably because I found him to be so wise, and we relied on him so much. Arts & Culture were Gryffondor, obviously – it’s obvious because it was my dream, and I also think we rocked. We all had a crazy loud diner, looking a lot like the one we had on our first night, but we were in the octogonal room with the open roof of the Castel. I also daydreamed a crazier version of this, Game of Thrones style, but it didn’t end well …(some of us got their heads chopped off for a piece of foccacia)

So besides proving how much of a geek I am, it goes to show that I think about you so much, I link you to imaginary places that I’ve fantasized about. However, Hogwarts and Winterfell are not real, you are. I’m dreaming now because I didn’t have much time for that when I was with you ; your reality was so enchanting that I fought against sleep.

You need to know something that you probably didn’t get when we were together : I am what some would call, a sleeper. If I didn’t have to have a life and, well, ‘do stuff’, I’d easily sleep 10 hours per night. We went to bed from 2.30 (earliest) til 4.00, 5.00, and woke up from 7.30 to 8.30 at the latest. From there, you can see why I’m having a little bit of trouble understanding how I’ve survived an entire week with you. What’s up with you Puglia, literally ?  ‘Why did they go to bed that late ?’ you may wonder. It wouldn’t be fair to blame it on late diners, it was YOU. Maybe our bodies screamed for rest, but our minds were still very much awake and eager. We wanted to live each moment, each minute, to the fullest. Even though I think we couldn’t completely comprehend how incredible you were, we still had an idea, and we didn’t want to miss out on anything.

After visiting castles, entering churches, eating like ogres, discovering cities and enjoying beaches, walking around with our faces looking-up, we’d get into the bus. Ah… the MPE bus … Our resting spot you’d think ? We thought so too.

- What time is it ? - 3 a.m. - What time do we have to be in the lubby ? - 8 :30 - With breakfast.. - Already taken, yes. Short silence. - We’ll sleep in the bus.

NO. YOU WILL NOT.          

Besides Laura, no one was ever really able to sleep in that bus. Our vessel, driven by the very calm Roberto.  I’m saying calm because traveling in that bus, made everything feel like a school trip. We didn’t draw on Laura’s face because we are too civilized, but still asked Roberto for music - if we were in the middle of nowhere without radio we’d exhaust the speakers of our phones, tablets, or even sing (mostly choruses because no one knew the complete lyrics of anything besides Wonderwall.) The bus could have been called the Instagramming- Bus as well : we’d scream out for the wi-fi password (at some point the sea water erased it from the device and we spent a long time figure out if a 6 was a 0 and a Q a P or an O) and use the drive to post pictures taken throughout the day. Funny enough, in our group, the guys mastered Instagram and taught the girls many tricks. (and also simple stuff like how to focus. Thanks Tobi.)

If we were not singing or on our phones, we played Uno – but only once because your curves drove us sick. Wonderful to see, but hard to experience.  And finally, one of the best thing to do : looking out the windows, being amazed by the olive fields, the grapevines, the sunsets, the horizon… Our minds wondering where we were going to sleep, eat or reliving the day... Let’s not forget that all of this was a roadtrip. This is the main thing I’ve been telling people since I got back : you need a car. In Puglia, you cannot sit in one place. You have to visit Bari off course. You must see Peschici. There is no way you’re going without seeing Alberobello. Pulignagno. Cisternino. Trani. Monte San Angelo. Lecce. Gallipoli. You need to trust that your mind is gonna take over your body and that you’ll feel like seeing everything, enjoying everything, relish in Puglia bare handed like a beast thirsty for life, astonishment and wonder. That’s what I tell people Puglia, so be ready. They’re coming for you.

So I didn’t have a lot of sleep when we met. More than that, I felt like sleep was a waste of time and I blamed my body for requiring some. I blamed days for only having 24 hours and #MyPugliaExperience for only lasting 7 days. I do thank the sun for being with us and the team for giving us beach time : if we hadn’t got a tan, we may have ended-up looking like an army of zombies dancing in your streets. Probably was part of their plan all along.

So not a lot of sleep...Some people told me I was high on the excitement, others tried to use chemistry,  or even espressi, but we both know it was something else. The restlessness that comes with the early stages of love.