Puglia

Vivid red-brown soil. Olive trees. Pear trees and cherry trees, white with flowers.

Trulli - small round huts with conical roofs, made of layers and layers of local stone. Stone huts, essentially. They are special to this region of the South of Italy, have apparently been found dotted along the historic migration paths from North Africa. Once looked down upon as animal quarters, dwellings of the poor, they have, in recent years, acquired considerable trendiness, are being bought up and renovated by wealthy Germans.

Old cave dwellings alongside the main road. Poppies, crimson, in bloom 8 weeks earlier than usual.

This is goddess country, I am told. Filled with prehistoric goddess shrines.