As our Facebook friends already know from some brief posts on that site, we spent last week in Sardegna. We started in the largest city, Cagliari, on the south end of the island and then drove to the northwest part of the island to Alghero. Sardegna is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (just behind Sicily) and turned out to be one of the most beautiful places we have visited here.
Sardegna is also one of the world’s Blue Zones. Those are places where people live longer and supposedly happier lives and have the highest percentage of centenarians. Not sure how many 100 year olds we met, but we found the Sardegnians to be genuinely open, courteous and friendly. Everyone we met and spoke with greeted us with a warmth that we could all take lessons from.
Cagliari
When we arrived at the train station from the airport, which are both at sea level, we followed our Google Maps directions to our apartment and one of the first things we ran into was this:
The stairway to where our apartment was and it was quite a bit of work with our luggage.
That led us to the Castello district where we were staying. It is so named because it once held a Pisan castle that comprises most of the old city. Sitting on a rock outcropping above the city and the port, it affords magnificent views of the surrounding landscape and the port.
The rest of Cagliari was filled with cute neighborhoods, great restaurants and quaint streets.
From here we rented a car and drove north to Alghero and that will be our next stop.