Masseria Montenapoleone

So we leave our sunbeds, the morning walks on the Adriatic, the canoeing and all the other fun and noisy activities behind and head the last 50km south to our 1st southern cooking school, again on a agrotourisum farm.

The meaning of agrotourisium is that the place or farm must produce 80% or at least source locally within10 km foods to serve at their restaurant.

We arrive around 5pm leaving the coast and heading slightly inland and the landscape has dramatically changed into biblical olive plantations. The rows apon rows, the paddock apon paddock and stretches are far as the eye can see. The old olive trees distorted and twisted with centuries of age and history under their gnarly bark and huge bases that sometimes sit precarious out of the soil or rocks. The soil is a dark red and covered with white limestone outcrops. The roads are lined with limestone dry stone walls 1 meter high as one would expect to see in Ireland but the difference is there is no green grass. We are here at the end off a hot summer, today the temperature is a hot 34 deg and the humidity is high, too high for us too little Aussies from our inland dry haven.

We are staying at Masseria Montenapoleone check out their web site.
Masseria means farm house down here in the south in Pulgia
www.masseriamontenapoleone.com