Day 5: Gargano Peninsula

I think mom has gotten the hang of the continuous go-kart driving that we endured today. We left San Vito del Mare this morning after having a nice breakfast and drove along the coast for the next 7 hours. We drove through Vasto, Termoli, and several other small towns including Campomarino, which was a cute Albanian town where supposedly they speak in such a dialect that the Italians consider it foreign and cannot understand, so mom and I felt right at home! After leaving there, we decided to drive around the entire Gargano Peninsula, which is part of the Nationale Parco of Gargano, which was beautiful. It took forever as the roads were super narrow, windy, and right on the edge of a large cliff. I even had to put on my motion sickness bands as I wasn’t driving, but trying to look for nice places to stop and take photos. Throughout the whole peninsula, we could hear the ringing of cow bells along side the ocean and it was great. We arrived at the hotel we were supposed to stay at (la veranda hotel), right on the ocean, but it seemed that we were the only ones there and a bit creepy, so we decided to try and get some dinner in the nearby town of Mattinata and found a hotel and restaurant there that seemed much more our style- so it was a bit more expensive, but mom and I both felt much more comfortable and we will go downstairs in a bit to have dinner.