Cioa Sardinia

 (Usual waiver applies to grammar, typos, spelling as I'm posting via  a small phone screen on the hoof 🤭, click on the pics to zoom in).

Woke up to a gorgeous sunny day in Alghero, Sardinia. Have to swap our kalimera's for buongiorno's now we're in Italy.

We had a long day of travelling yesterday. We flew out of Corfu around 2pm (after getting to the airport at 10am). Great views down to an array of little Greek islands out the plane windows. We had a nice few days in Corfu and loved our little house across from the nonna's. 

However it felt just a little crowded for us with between two to four cruise ships docking per day and up to 20 flights per day offloading package tours from Manchester, London etc. At a guess about 5000 visitors flowed into the old daily and across the island.

We landed at Milan Bergamo in the late afternoon and were due to fly on to Sardinia at 8.50pm. As I was looking out the airport windows pre-boarding, there was a mighty flash of lightening and then a huge boom of thunder. Uh oh! 😬Worried for a minute that the storm would shut down flights....luckily it just delayed us for an hour, Ryanair always gets you there. As we flew to Sardinia we saw the most amazing lightening display  high above the clouds. Landed 11pm, taxi to the old town as far as cars were permitted and then 50m walk to our apartment along the old cobblestones - I think our luggage bumping along would have woken the sleeping 🤭. Then up three flights of stairs with luggage, shower and bed 😴 knackered.

Wow what a place! Alghero is encircled by ancient  fortress walls and I love, love, love that no private  vehicles are allowed in the old city.

It's our kind of vibe, quiet, relaxed, calm, just the gentle hubub of local folks going about their daily tasks. You can wander aimlessly and not worry about getting run down by instagrammer's on electric scooters 😄

Our apartment is slap bang in the old town and so far I have to say Alghero is the bees knees.

Felt a bit strange hanging the washing out on the line but no one's going to look up and see our delicates four floors up.

There's something about those terracotta roof tiles en masse, quintessential Europe.

So many wonderful walking paths to explore so we started with one part of the city walls and the marina.

There's the usual big floating gin palaces and mega yachts but I always love to see the little traditional boats holding their spot in the marina. 

Plenty of places to sit and rest a while with a coffee or vino. 

You can see the old cannon that were used to ward off potential invaders and replica catapults for hurling fireballs or rocks. 

The water in Corfu was a deep velvety blue but here it's a clear glassy green, gorgeous!

Lit a candle for our loved ones who are no longer with us and to give thanks for this wonderful adventure.

Man cannot live by bread alone so we had to revive our spirits before siesta time and we were not disappointed. Fresh squid, squid ink pasta with prawns and some very tasty pulpo. Price made the eyes water a bit but when in Sardinia....

A great first day in Alghero, Sardinia. Love the old town, love the seaside paths and looking forward to more exploration tomorrow.