June 21

We arrived in Brindisi Italy at 8:00am under clear, hot & humid skies.  We docked alongside the walled old town and walked in.  Brindisi is an ancient city with artifacts from even before the Neanderthals having been discovered.  Our first stop was to an old cathedral and, next to it, was an extraordinary museum.  It was on 4 levels but was laid out in such a way that you followed the walkways to see everything in historical sequence.  Unfortunately we couldn't take pictures.  Museums & cathedrals were all free entry.  We walked to the old harbor area where there was one remaining Roman column from a few centuries BC.  Originally there were 2 and they guided ships to the harbor.  We next went to the new & modern theater which had the remains of an ancient bath dating from 14th C BC.  It was discovered when they began clearing the land for the theater so they preserved it and built the theater above the ruin.  After some more exploring we returned to the Roman column where we had previously noticed an interesting restaurant and had a marvelous lunch.  We each had different pastas, neither of which had tomato sauce.  We did a bit more exploring before returning to the ship.