[Eric]: Good morning adventurers.
[Allison]: Good morning!
Yesterday we rented a car and drove out to the Puglia region
Apulia it actually goes by two names Puglia and Apulia
it's this beautiful region in the
Southeastern kind of part of Italy that we really wanted to see and we're just outside of the town of Alberobello
This area is actually known for these beautiful old traditional houses that we will tell you more about later.
In just a bit, we're gonna head into the town of Alberobello. But before we do that, we have to show you guys around this place
It is one of the most adorable places I think we've ever stayed.
So cute. I love it, I don't ever wanna leave.
So this house is a trullo and a trullo was basically a traditional farmhouse or it's where someone would stay who was working
The fields and they would live in that or it would just be kind of storage for the farm
There's actually one right over here
That's a better example of what it might have looked like back in the day.
First off, I want to take you guys around the outside. So this is basically like a tiny house
I mean it's multiple rooms
But it's pretty petite you can see it's just this stunning whitewashed stone. And that is very characteristic of these style houses
It has a cone-shaped roof and it's made of dry stone
Which I just think means that there's not really any mortar used to hold the roof together
Our host actually told us that the stones
Laid for the roof are chiseled by hand. There's no equipment used in making them
So as you can imagine
These guys that do this have to be very specialized and so we read that in the past 20 years
It's become quite expensive to fix up these roofs, unfortunately
because the area's become so popular
And because there are so many of these style homes around this area
I think there's a lot of work for these guys to do but that is the outside of our beautiful little trullo.
Now, let's take a look on the inside
Welcome to our adorable
trullo
Check this place out you guys
so the interior is a lot like the exterior where it's all nice and white in here and they have
so many lights more lights than I think I have ever seen in an AirBnB in my entire life, but it makes it so
Bright and clean
It's really cool, whether it's the middle of the day or the middle of the night
It still feels like this same bright vibe in here. If you close the doors, you can't even tell if it's day or night
No, I will show you right now
This is also so quiet in here when you close the doors you can hear a thing.
There was a thunderstorm last night
And we - I just barely heard this little rumble, I was like what's going on. I open the door it was raining
There was crazy lightning everywhere. You could barely hear - hear it in here
This is our lovely kitchen slash hangout area. It's got the nice little table. We've been working and eating our meals
It has a fully equipped kitchen, stove, microwave, sink everything. There's even a fridge
Down under here and they have done such a good job with all the details in here everything. It seems so purposeful
And so rustic it's so beautiful
And I love all their little like vintage-inspired goodies around.
Our hostmother actually baked us this amazing dessert and she brought us a little
Bruschetta bite and they gave us some local wine and goodies. It was delicious.
It was a pretty warm greeting
The trullo is divided into these three main sections
it took them about a year to
Redo this place and we saw pictures of what it looked like before hand and my god you guys you would not believe it it
was old dilapidated
storage shed out in this little farmland area
But actually our host told us that back in the day when this was actually functioning as a trullo this room
That is now the bathroom was actually a bedroom
So I guess someone who was working this area would actually stay in this room
But the bathroom is incredibly beautiful like the rest of the place but check out this shower guys
Is this not the coolest shower ever?
It's like your own little shower cave. They have lights placed in all the perfect spots here
There's one light right up here that just lights up the white ceiling of the shower
There's so many awesome little touches to this place. This giant hunk here isn't just any old rock
this was actually an old piece a piece of the old floor and
It was a specific spot that has something to do with the winemaking process
We don't really know but it was a function part of the old trullo. There's really nice tile work in this place
There's a lot of spots that are inset like this and they put these really rustic muted tone tiles inside of it
There's just little
Accents of it all over the place in here in the bathroom and then some of them out there in the main room
It adds a really nice ...
[Allison]: Touch?
another cool feature that you might overlook if the owner hadn't told us that these beams are actually
Original to the trullo and we forgot to say this place is over
200 years old and it's been in the family and used for winemaking
For I don't know how long and what a cool way to keep its legacy going
Talking about the lights again their lights inset inside of this wood and it just shines straight up and lights up the ceiling
Yeah, let me try if I could guess which one. Oh! I get it first try!
I mean that is so cool
Right? That adds such a brightness to the place and plus you can see all the way up to the roof
Last but not the least
Welcome to the boudoir
this actually was back in the day where they would store the wine and now it is our cozy little
Bedroom and they have these amazing curtains which you can close off make it super cozy in here
It does have the one window though, if you do want some sunlight in the morning
Otherwise you close it and it is pitch black in here
It's kind of wild when you cross into the Puglia region you just immediately start seeing these trulli everywhere
They're in almost every field and while a lot of them are spread out
There are concentrations in some of the cute little towns the most famous of which is that when we mentioned Albert, alberobello
It's a bit of a tongue twister
These traditional-style dwellings have been around this area for I think the last few hundred years
But they really didn't start to gain popularity and get in such
concentration like they are today until around the 19th century and eventually people started converting them and making them a little bit nicer and then
People would come and stay in them
so now there are a ton of
Trulli all over this area that you can stay in that are really cool like this one
Although we might have found one of the coolest
So no
I think so for sure
Now that you've gotten a little bit more familiar with our cool traditional style house that we're staying in
we're gonna go explore the area a bit and make our way to Alberobello
and get lunch!
and lunch the most important thing and probably coffee
Check this little guy out. It's literally just a hunk of plastic and she was complaining that our car was so small
How'd you like to drive that thing around?
Oh my god, it looks like a toy car.
Like it really do it looks like it's made out of a paddle boat that you take out on the water
That does not look safe. But it looks like a lot of fun.
We made it to Alberobello
It is maybe one of the cutest these places are just incredible. I am in love with little trulli
We're actually here just a little afternoon
But because it's winter the sun's already looking like it's going down
But I think it could easily blind you if you were here.
If you look down the wrong corner, it's real bright
It's really bright
but it makes it really feel fresh and exciting and then it seems like there are a lot of
Artists out and about selling pottery and little works and stuff. So and you have these nice little bright colors contrasting against the light
It's very pretty.
Yeah, and there are just a bunch of shops
so
Definitely if you can mind all the other tourists and stuff then just make your way around and just explore everything
Do a little shopping and keep your shopping on if that's what you're into
She finally found cats that'll let her pet him at least for a second
Bye!
He's on his own adventure, yeah all the cats. They're so cute
And I think they would let us pet him but they get spooked and then they run off.
I think it's the camera.
Oh, yeah always goes in with this and it's got the fuzzy thing on top
I think they think he's throwing another animal at them
You can get a really good look at how this roof is constructed on this one
You can see that all the stones are just kind of casually laid on top of each other if they're laid in the right pattern
And that's what gives it the cone shape and I suppose it's the strength that keeps it from
You know collapsing in on itself. One reason they started building them was to avoid taxation
So basically they'd be able to build these up without any mortar
And then when the taxman came around they would disassemble them just like that because you can see there's no wet anything
Keeping this together.
I cannot get over how teeny-tiny these doors are
For reference, I'm 5'4 and I can't even fit in here. That's so wild
I guess it does have the nice dome inside or the cone so you could stand up
I'm glad we found this one because
It seems very original and I mean look at the door over there
Really makes me nervous. We had a big storm last I always really windy
I would be so scared every night that my whole house would just collapse all these stones on me
I mean look above this doorway here. It looks like the stones have already collapsed
When you walk around you notice that a lot of these have
little symbols on the top and some have symbols painted on them and we actually just found a little sign that seems to explain what
Some of those symbols mean which is pretty cool
We're trying to find lunch. We have now gone to two different restaurants. All of which have been booked and it's 2:00 p.m
So maybe call ahead and make reservations. If you're planning. We should have done that
Yeah, but the restaurants we tried were Casa Nova and La Cantina, so we just happened to walk by another place
That was completely empty. So we're gonna try that it gets good reviews online, but nobody lives in there.
Plus they have espresso.
We just stumbled upon a place to get some coffee and turns out they have some pretty delicious looking food
And mostly just sandwiches and salads, but we got bruschetta - bruschetta.
I think it's more the Italian way to say it
but they had all sorts of different kinds
I've always known it as just the tomatoes on top of the bread but this is prosciutto cheese olives and
Artichokes in there and then we have some sandwiches coming. We accidentally went kind of crazy with the bread today. Oopsie.
So our epic pasta dreams, we're a fail for lunch
So I think we're just gonna eat this and then go to the grocery store and maybe make some
Local pasta or something at home. Later
Well, so we were going to film this epic dinner making sequence and then we got to working and now dinner is ready
Yeah. We had a lot of work we need to catch up on, you guys.
But look what we made though
So healthy.
So I got more of the orecchiette pasta
The little ears that we ate in Matera.
If this is what ears taste like people might be in trouble. I would be biting them
right and left
I don't know. That was weird, okay, cut that.
And then we got a whole bunch of veggies broccoli zucchini peppers
To try to make it a little bit healthier
We were gonna watch a movie tonight
But we're having a really hard time figuring out what to watch because I feel like we've watched everything
Least everything they were interested in. Yeah. So we've resorted to watching old 90s movies, so we're about to watch "She's All That".
Literally decided at the last minute. I was actually thinking about it earlier because I was thinking about Freddie Prinze jr
Were you now?
I don't know why I was
Hey I don't blame you I think about him sometimes too
But in other news we're off to Sicily tomorrow
I don't think we're gonna make a whole video of our travel day over there or anything like that
But next time we're gonna be coming at you. We are going to be having an epic adventure in Sicily
Alright, it's carb time and 90's movie time.
Goodnight adventurers.
We'll see you on the road.