Campervan Therapy

There’s nothing better than reading a book set where you’re travelling. We love Grazia Deledda’s autobiography, Cosima. It paints a wonderful picture of growing up in Ogliastra’s inland town of Nuoro at the turn of the 20th Century. In it the life of shepherds and farmers, mountains, myths and women come alive. The first woman…

There’s nothing better than reading a book set where you’re travelling. We love Grazia Deledda’s autobiography, Cosima. It paints a wonderful picture of growing up in Ogliastra’s inland town of Nuoro at the turn of the 20th Century. In it the mountains, the people, the flora and the environment come vividly alive. The first woman…

Santa Lucia, an unassuming village on the east coast of Sardinia, is a feast for the senses. Again, it’s a place that we say we’ll stay a night and end up staying five. Sand and surf The beach stretches five kilometres north to Posada, the neighbouring town. Each morning we join the locals who exercise…

Sta. Teresa de Gallura La Liccia Campsite, outside Sta.Teresa de Gallura, the northern tip of Sardinia, is a lotus-eater sort of place. You enter, you think you’ll stay one night, you end up staying five.   From the perfect fritto misto, where the batter is crisp and the fish succulent, to the giant butterflies that…

Bonifacio Port As we arrive at the Port for the hour crossing to Sardinia’s St. Teresa Gallura, a man in an orange jumpsuit indicates vaguely towards the sea. At this point I decide that he’s not a port worker at all, but an imposter, but he’s pretty insistent so we find ourselves precariously perched on…

St. Florent’s Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta We love the blue bay and  rugged headland from St. Florent’s 15th Century Citadel, built by the Genoese and bombarded by Nelson. The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta is a kilometre walk east. A simple, limestone building, it’s surrounded by meadows on the site of Roman Nebbium. Even…