Breakfast didn't quite live up to the pictures on Booking.com. No lavish spread for 4 blokes. It was just about adequate.
Oil check last night was ok and I checked my tyre pressures this morning and they were ok too. Good to go, it was time to head out into the heat once more.
It was a cool 33 or so when we left. As before though, once we turned inland, the temperature rose, even when climbing. We made a quick refreshments stop halfway to our fuel stop, then another at a supermarket, as we both needed some more shower gel. Grizzly is still unable to track down a febreze equivalent. If anyone knows IF they do one in Italy and what it may be called, let me know.
We'd hit 39 degrees again by the time we got to the fuel stop. It's bloody uncomfortable I can tell you. I'm not one of these "it's too hot" merchants, as soon as the sun comes out but I would happily take a 10-15 degree drop right now. The forecast down this neck of the woods, is for more of the same.
We only had an hour or so from the fuel stop to our overnight in Andria and we arrived around 13:30. Not sure how it was so quick, after all we'd covered 150 miles, I suppose we had some better, faster roads today.
Checked in and freshened up, we decided to walk into town. Blimey! Everything was closed. The place was like a ghost town. We were trying to suss out where to eat but we barely saw a soul. Maybe here?
We found the cathedral and popped in there but there was little else to do, so we made our way back to the hotel, by way of the bar next door. 1 cheeky Paulaner wouldn't hurt, eh? It did, at €7 a bottle. Fleece the tourists!
Across from the hotel is a memorial park, Grizzly was taking photos of some statues, so I nipped over to take a look at the war memorial.
Back at the hotel Grizzly had a nap whilst I caught up with some paperwork.
Soon it was time to go out for dinner. OMG! what a transformation. The same street we had walked down earlier, was now thronging with people, shops open, bars, restaurants etc. We couldn't believe the difference.
We decided on a place selling pasty type foods, all stuff with various fillings. It was cheap, tasty and filling, plus the beer was cheap too.
It was hard to understand how the place had changed in 3 hours and it seemed unusual that everyone seemed to be out in their posh clothes on a Thursday, especially the hundreds of teenagers. We wonder if it may have been end of term or something 🤔
It's now 10pm and still 28 degrees. It will only dip to 24 overnight, thank heavens for aircon. By the time we leave tomorrow it will be 30 again! Tomorrow our destination is San Severo. Still up on the east side and still expected to be hot.
That's all for now.
Ciao
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