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Advantages: Beautiful, Unspoilt, Superb Climate Disadvantages: More Expensive Than You Might Expect
believe, is renowned for its beautiful beaches and roman ruins, which include an impressive and largely intact Amphitheatre. It strikes me as interesting, that the two Pulas should have these things in common. The Pula I am visiting, however, is set not on the Adriatic, but rather, near the southernmost tip of Sardinia, smack bang in the centre of the Med. Sadly, the small Amphitheatre here now rests in picturesque ruins.
ARRIVAL: En route to Cagliari, Sardinia's ancient capital, the plane had hovered above the island's spectacular western coastline, dipped slightly inland, and then, upon landing, had seemed almost to skim the surface of the sea before coming safely to rest on Sardinian ground. I felt a vague (and no doubt unwarranted) sense of narrowly averted disaster. The airport itself is very modern, with a new-car sort of smell ...
snowbunni 09.11.2006 (09.01.2007)
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Advantages: beautiful Disadvantages: it's not a white spot on the map any more
might go anyway, because there's one of the two big stalactite caves (the other one is near Alghero). The carpets I like best come from Isili, which you can visit when you go to Barumini to see the great nuraghi complex. the weaving mill (too big a word for the room with the looms) is beside the church.
And wine, of course! Poor you, if you come by plane! The most famous quality is called 'cannonau', more red wine than white is produced. The wine cellars are called 'cantina', they sell open wine, too. People go there with plastic (!) containers and fill in the wine with the help of a pump, just like at a filling station. The wine is so good and strong, it can stand that treatment. (Now you know the REAL reason why Germans go to Sardinia by CAR!) Another speciality is bitter honey, 'miele amaro', which is sold in supermarkets.
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MALU 28.11.2003
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Advantages: Good beaches, dramatic scenery, historical interest, unspoilt interior Disadvantages: The cost, and the Costa Smeralda in particular
It was Cyprus that Saki described as having ?produced more history than could be consumed locally,? but the same could be said of almost any of the Mediterranean?s larger islands, and certainly of Sardinia.
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One is reminded of Sardinia?s history almost on arrival, assuming one has come the cheap way, by Ryanair to Alghero in the north-west of the island. Alghero is a handsome town, in its older parts at least, with a fortified promontory jutting out into the sea to guard the port. Within the old walls is a rabbit-warren of narrow streets and small squares, crammed with mediaeval buildings including some fine churches with Spanish-style bell-towers.
The fortifications were built by the Spanish, who used the town as a strongpoint for their occupation from the 14th to the 17th centuries ...
torr 30.09.2003
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