October 2nd Villasimius and Pula

The weather gradually improved last evening, from gusty rain showers to some sort of sunset which most of us appreciated.  It had certainly been a turbulent day.

Last night's sunset from our verandah

Today the forecast was much better and so we decided to go on another expedition to Pula, which I had read as one of the must see places of Sardinia.  It was quite some distance -  the other side of Cagliari - but we went for it and eventually arrived after a more than 2 hour drive.  The town certainly seemed much better than Villasimius and the beach was very nice.  We sunbathed for some time, Christine decided to go for a swim (I only paddled).  Pula is famous for its ruins and we had a walk where we found the excavations of the pre-Roman, Phoenician town.  The coast also had a couple of Spanish towers similar to the one near our hotel, so quite an interesting history.  It was now time for the drive home which went better than the outward journey and we were back within 2 hours after stopping again at Capo Boi.  A good day to finish the Sardinian visit and I shall leave putting more pictures on here until tomorrow as the wifi is so slow.