Salento Beaches & Crazy Italian Fast Food | Exploring Puglia's Salento
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- Salento Beaches & Crazy Italian Fast Food - Pizza Dough Burger & Octopus Sandwich?! | Exploring Puglia's Salento
This Italy food video we try some Italian fast food. If you are as intrigued by what Italian food is like as we were, you won't be disappointed. In Puglia, the pizza dough Puccia sandwich is popular street food but in Taranto, they go one better make and have perfected the dirty burger. It is a pizza dough burger with fries inside. Crazy, delicious and weird. They also have an octopus sandwich. Visually different, it is an interesting take on Italian seafood. If you are looking for what you should eat in Italy, I think this should be on your list. Probably not that high on your must-eat list, but should be there all the same :)
We also visited the beautiful beaches of Salento. Puglia is famous for its beaches and again they didn't disappoint even if the weather wasn't in our favour. We visited the Maldives of Salento, Gallipoli and Punta Procusttio beaches and then to top it all off, Salina dei Monaci Nature reserve where they had bloody FLAMINGOS!! A must do in Italy in my bird book ;)
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Beaches, Burgers and BIRDS! I can't believe you just stumbled on a random flock of Flamingos, how awesome is that. Also Emma I really like your outfit while you were walking the streets :)
this burger was just out of this world! Btw if you're interested, I also have a travel channel with vlogs from Greece and Italy if you want to check it out ❤️
really underrated chanel! Love your video's
I am a local. When the wind is Sud/West you have to go on the Adriatic side, like Otranto, when is Nord/Est, go to Ionic side like Gallipoli or Maldive.
One great natural reserved and more bigger and organized, It is WWF Le cesine, near La poesia (the cave of poetry). With way more Flamingos!
The Octopus burger looked delicious!! Love watching you guys, real and down to earth people. Happy travels can't wait to see what you do next.
Hope they can still travel, I am now in lockdown in London. Where in the world are you? Btw if you're interested, I also have a travel channel with vlogs from Greece and Italy if you want to check it out ❤️
It's been quite a work week so it was lovely to see you two enjoying life. Great to see a part of Italy that's not overrun by tourists
So much to discover in Salento! 💫
The Salento is no longer an insider tip. Thank you very much ;)
I love this area.
Greats from Germany
Pizza dough bread dirty burger,,...huge thumbs up
Absolutely agree with you, the accommodations are just a place to sleep.
I love you Italy beautiful and natural beautiful clean rich country Italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Totally agree, Italy is such a beautiful country with so many cities and places to explore! Btw if you're interested, I also have a travel channel with vlogs from Greece and Italy if you want to check it out ❤️
@@VASIGTravelingLifeinLondon I am subscribed your channel
@@bibekdas5595 Let's say that Italy can be divided into two parts, northern Italy is extremely overrated while southern Italy is extremely underrated.
Great vid guys! You remind me that while travelling can be sometimes stressful, it REALLY is fun! Your laughter is contagious- keep it up 😉👍
LOVE THIS! Especially seeing how you spend so little on a room for the night! My goal is always to spend the least amount on our room w/o it being sketchy. The best part about traveling in Europe is that you can get amazing rooms for so cheap, especially compared to the US where you often find dirty, old, outdated rooms for $150+ depending on where/when you go (New England coast near where we live for sure)! I don't think that our friends who don't travel the way we do understand how affordable it is. They think we are fancy & extravagant by going to Europe a couple times a year (when there isn't a pandemic) and they don't believe us when we tell them that most of the time our whole trip for 10 days costs less than a week at a beach in Maine or on the Cape in summer and is definitely less than a trip to Disney! I wish hotels here were as affordable as in Europe!!!
Watching all these videos is makes me long to travel so so much!!!! Can't wait to get back to Europe soon!!!!
Easy tip for Salento visitors. West coast only if it’s northern wind!
Amazing videos guys! Congrats! 👏🏻
On our honeymoon, we stayed in a £500 a night suite in Hakone, Japan, with a private thermal pool!
I’d love to do it again some time but I think with luxury places like that it’s got to be for one night, then you go back to the budget hotels.
And the rest of your life your live in a box 😂
Haha love it.. 6 nights in a hostel and 1 night someplace fancy. Seems like a great idea!
I'm very much enjoying your choices in locations. Literally never seen these regions covered before. Octopus can be quite wonderful but only with expert cooking. I hope Emma's ear heals up soon.
Nice to see young people exploring this magic part of Italy 🙏
Such good British humour! Love it . From someone, somewhere on a British colony in the pacific
I love the accommodations you stayed in. I wouldn’t consider them a “dungeon.” So quaint and beautiful
Hey guys! Firstly, a big fat “no way” can I eat tentacles and suckers 🤢. I’ve been told that freshly cooked octopus is bueno!!
I don’t know what I’ll do when I catch up with all your vlogs 😧 so keep on filming and educating and making me smile and laugh!! 👏🏻👏🏻😃🍦🍦🥰🙅♀️🙅♀️
Wonderful video! Yeah, I would eat the octupus burger. 😋
Octopus is delish!
I have to say, you were very brave ordering the octopus burger! I love your sense of adventure.
lol i JUST said that too! I Am NOT that Brave!
Can't believe you ate that whole burger! It looked ginormous!🍔
It would be insane to leave it and not eat it! Btw if you're interested, I also have a travel channel with vlogs from Greece and Italy if you want to check it out ❤️
Your videos are so very nice and funny. Buon divertimento in Italia. We look forward to seeing you next year.
You are guys so lovely! Watching your videos make me happy! .) I can´t wait to visit Salento next week and of course I have to try the dirty pizza dough burger! :))
Always such great videos. Omg the octopus was umm.. 😳 lots of aloha! 💕
Love octopus!!!!
Great video, you to are so crazy, love it
Burger 🍔 for me 😋 and birds! Yes 🙌🏻
I love Italian pizza and food bro
You got me at pizza dough burger. I like octopus but I prefer the dirty burger. I'm new here and have been enjoying your Italy videos. Funny, entertainment and good food and wine. Nice work!!!
I would be eating both, love a bit of octopus 🐙 😋
Loving your Italia series! Great videos guys! Next time you visit, you should visit the other southern tip of the boot.... Calabria. Thats a truly 'under the radar' place with amazing beaches, history and food. Continue on to Sicily and the Eolian islands after :D
Hi, just a tip Salento is not a secret at all, probabily you found it a little empty due the covid, but believe me usually is a famous summer destination, so from the end of july to the beginning of september could be really crowded especially in august, really really crowded, the pro is that have all that coastline you could find your spot but away from the beaches most "IN".
About flamingoes you probabily already know but the color becomes less and lesser pink while they feed the babies
Octopus sandwich looks great.
Seems to be a good time to go to beautiful Italy - streets/beaches don't look crazy crowded. If I weren't a vegetarian, I'd say your fast food looked pretty amazing - Italians do food the best in my book :)
Agreed.. Everywhere is so quiet right now and it's actually one of the safest and easiest places to travel in Europe at the moment. And luckily, every place seems to have plenty of tasty veggie options! Italian food is the best 😋
Ben fatto. Well done
I'm Italian and I would devour both burgers you tried!
You guys are hilarious. As for the accommodation, I agree with you, it was absolutely perfect. Even fancy, with a big kitchen. I travel the same way; I just need a safe place to sleep, and the cheaper the better. I am never inside anyway. I love your adventures.
You two are fun to watch 😁
i want to help them with some things.. they're so young-so adorable.
Emma, those roll up ear plugs would be ideal to keep water out of your ear. Do you know the ones? They are typically orange or green and you roll them into a long thin baguette shape (for want of a better word) stick them in and in 30 seconds, they've expanded to completely seal your ear. I reckon they'd be great for you.
Thanks John 👍 yes I usually travel with specific earplugs that I can use to snorkel and swim underwater but unfortunately I didn't have them with me on this trip. Those ones you're talking about would probably work well for splashes etc though, never thought of that. Thanks 😊
The "burger" puccia is just a typical puccia, we put every kind of meat (and not just that, as you saw in the other video) in it and you can find it pretty easily everywhere, sometimes even at "paninari", places (typically in vans) that sell sandwiches at the side of the road. God you made me want a puccia now.
Waves travel huge distances, the local wind forecast for the day is no indicator of calm seas. Besides that, another very watchable video.
Come to Brazil. We have beautiful landscapes here too.
Hands down the octopus burger. We have friends who live on Lanzarote, when we were there on holiday they invited us to dinner and served octopus. It was so delicious and we learned the octopus has to be cooked at least four hours for it to become 'soft'. It was served as a salad and my mouth waters just thinking about it. Great video guys!
I love Octopus and id definitely try the dirty burger… My Dream is to go to Italy! Thanks guys for the recommendations
i REALLY Like this Place! And What's Important Is, It's CLEAN. To Me, That is VERY Important.
Hey Beans, love the video and to answer your questions I would stay in a place with less nice accommodations to save some money and spend more money on doing and seeing things in that location and I would have done the same thing Alex did and get both burgers. The weird tentacle one and the yummy juicy dirty one.
We are huge fans of the channel! I think I've watched all your Italy vids 3-4 times.
I have a question about driving in Puglia... how safe was your luggage(in your car) when you wandered down to the beach?
Any driving tips? We are driving from Bari, down and around to Matera, and back to Bari over a period of 15 days.
Of course I would!!
When you are in Salento you can choose between Adriatic sea and Ionian sea based on wind conditions
LMAO "on our holibbobs"..... totally agree about a place to sleep as long as it's clean.... we have only ever had one dodgy place in Barcelona.... but it made for a crazy story (there was even a live rabbit in a cage)
Glad Alex got his bird fix! The pink ones are older and have eaten more of the algae that turns them pink.
I'm sorry for you guys but october was a bit late in the season to enjoy the beaches. Next time try to make it in september ! Ciao.
For me, I like to save on hotels as long as they are clean and aren't like the bates motel or something weird/scary. I think the place you found still looks like it has a bit of charm.
we do not have motels etc :O
I was born only about 20 km or so from Polignano but now I live in Chicago. Chicago lakefront is not like the adriatic coast of Polignano. Do you know who was born in Polignano? Domenico Modugno if I am not mistaken. You will find his monument in the piazza. Heidi known to have sung the 50s song ' bel blu dipinto di blu' commonly known as ' Volare'.
Ciao ciao from Chicago.
The Puglia region is on my bucket list of places to visit in Italy. The dirty burger looks yummy 😋. I’m with you both as long as a place is clean I’d choose the cheaper place over expensive places to stay. My cousin , her husband and I shared a room for 3 days in Florence in 2019. We didn’t realize it was a shared room until we had already booked but in the end it was fine as we were only sleeping. Unless you plan on spending all your time in the room I don’t see the point in booking expensive rooms.
The strength of wind and waves is probably related to the time of day you visit. Air will heat off the opposite land mass and be pushed across as the day warms up. Photos of a calm beach are probably taekn in the early morning or evening when the air is cooler. You get a similar effect on Tenerife with hot air blowing off the coast of Africa during the afternoon.
@stevo728822, Uhmm, yes and not, in summer day of high pressure could be flat as an oil surface, anyway could be also true what you describe, but the main issue is that Salento is exposed to the main winds during summer, Tramontana, Grecale, Scirocco, Levante, in fact the unofficial "motto" is "Salentu, lu sole , lu mare, lu ientu" "Salento il sole il mare il vento" "Salento the sun the sea the wind", so a good idea is to switch coast according the wind direction. If Adriatic is on the mood Ionian usually is calm and viceversa, there are guide online about what beach choose, but sometimes you have no chance.
I'd probably go for the octopus sandwich, not to many cows grazing on the beach there. I find it interesting that you both are able to travel during all that is COVID. I am an American isolating in a remote part of Ireland and loving it. Looking forward to your next video.
Thanks Bruce! Yes, we are very lucky to be able to travel at this time.. Although the restrictions are tightening up again here in Europe coming into winter. So let's see what happens!
Wow
Hey Alex, do you like Bald Eagles...?? I live on a part of the Mississippi River in Minnesota that has 2 Islands in the middle. There is a family of Bald Eagles, on nice days they spend hours hunting right over my house.. Its pretty cool.
That is more than cool! I have never seen one but unsurprisingly I would love to. Next visit to the US I will be on the look out big time
@@TravelBeans Minnesota has its fair share. Pretty sure Voyagurs which I shared previously would have all you could ever want to see. ;)
@@TravelBeans also. When birds great each other they stretch. If you literally make a stretching motion (arms to the side not over your head) you can get some bigger birds especially corvids
to do it back.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that and yet to try it. The next big bird I see better watch out...
@@TravelBeans I figure especially with crows, if they do not do it back they at least know I am friendly. LOL
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Eeek Octopus Noooo thank you. Looks a lovley place . Wow that burger 😱. Massive the calories in that 😅
yum I love octopus! I had a similar burger in Sicily 😋😍
I love you Europe Europe country is the world no 1 most expensive beautiful sweet very very nice wonderful I love Europe culter I love Europe food I love Europe arechture Europe is the my all time favourite continent in the world bro
Remember the pink flamingos in the Miami Vice tv credits ?
Burger 🍔 chez CRIANZA Lecce is astonishing!!
You should have gone for the double flamingo burger.
Oh my god that smile !!!!!!!!
Octopus used be fine to eat, then we watched the Netflix doco 🤭
Yeah, they're super smart. Also super delish. Bad combination for them.
Same - never again!!
My octopus teacher - really good!
Looks like we have something we need to watch. Thanks guys 😊
I need to know the name of that Netflix show!
when i was young, i was used to go to Poldo to eat those so big puccia
I love tasting interesting local food, but I have read “The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness”. Such an amazing book. I will now never be able to eat octopus. Emma, you have to read this book!
Oh wow, sounds super interesting.. Absolutely love the subject of consciousness too! 👍 Thanks
What time of year did you visit?
Both. Veering toward cheap place to sleep. But a really quirky, more expensive place occasionally.
Here in Salento there's sort of a magic formula for where to go to the beach based on the wind! Long story short:
- if it comes from the north (Tramontana), it's SOUTH of Otranto
- if it comes from the south (Scirocco), it's NORTH of Otranto
- if the wind comes from east (Levante), it's NORTH of Gallipoli (so on the other side), and some say
- if it comes from north-east (don't know why it's so specific with this one) you go SOUTH of Gallipoli.
I can only testify for the Otranto side of this argument, I go to Ionian beach's too but never tested this theory there.
Here is a web page on the subject with a map (it's in Italian though): www.nelsalento.com/blog/scegliere-mare-in-base-vento/
Also Salento is pretty known for being fairly windy, I'm sorry xD
I came here for the Octopus Burger! :)
I'm an "it's a place to stay" kind of person but if I can get a nice place at a cheap price I will go for it.
Octopus sandwich no thanks but I’d like to try the pizza dough sandwich. Love your channel.
You really have to try it! I had it years ago and it was so much better than what you'd expect! Btw if you're interested, I also have a travel channel with vlogs from Greece and Italy if you want to check it out ❤️
@ Travel Beans please suggest a good hotel on salento
Octopus is a very traditional food in Italy, expecially in Puglia. It's delicious if you know how to prepare it. In Puglia it's mostly used in salads or grilled and served in burgers. It's quite common to see even amateurs catching them along the rocky coastline and that's why I feel it's a bit overfished in the area, but I don't have any scientific research to prove it. They are quite intelligent animals and quite hard to prepare correctly, therefore I suggest not to try fishing it nor cooking it if you are not sure of what you are doing, not because it's dangerous, but because wasting it would be a shame.
Omg-You Are SERIOUSLY Brave to Eat a Octopus Burger. No WAY Could I Do THAT! Nope!! NOWAY!!
the real brave is the one that DON'T EAT an Octopus: try to believe it!
Where was the first beach please?
As a local i'd like to thank Netflix so i can finally find some octopus for me even when the places are crowded by tourists.
More for me, less for snowflakes! FINALLY! ❤️👌
I’m with you Emma on accommodation, it’s just somewhere to sleep. And I’m with you Alex, on the whole burger thing. But did the octopus taste like squid?
Love you bro
Come to Sardinia please
Taranto was founded by the Spartans: Taras, 8th century BC ... the only Spartan colony.
The best part is you both trying local cuisines. 😂
Are there public bathrooms at any of these beaches??
I’ll take both.
the room at Gallipoli looked fine to me.
I thought Pizza was fast food, they only take 7 minutes or less to cook in a wood oven and it takes less then a minute to stretch and top it. The 🐙 can be put where the sun doesn't shine, I hate it! The burger looked scrummy but an heart attack in a wrapper. The Med isn't always crystal clear and calm particularly if the wind is from the West or South West with the west coast of Italy bearing the brunt of it. Stay safe 👸🧔 enjoy a 🍷 or two. 💋💋
I would eat it all of that.
I would have been perfectly content in that accommodation.
Go to Le castella Calabria it’s really amazing and just few hours drive from where you are
Oh wow.. Looks incredible! Thanks for the tip!
No! To the octopus 🥴 Love you guys!!!!
Why would i choose between the sandwich and the burger? I'd choose both! For the question of where to sleep I actually prefer a decent hotel (not pricy) with a breakfast option. Cutting costs at transportation or rentals and having a bigger budget for food and tours.
I would eat the octopus with pasta or like an appetizer and I would go nuts with that dirty burger!
Yucky! No Octopus for me! Gross, LOL. And, I just need a clean place to sleep and I like to spend my money elsewhere! Thanks for the video
An expensive hotel is nice, but I don't need a hotel which is better than my home. Of course I would not sleep in some crappy places, where everything is dirty or I have to share a bathroom (not to mention the bedroom like in some hostels) with foreign people. About the octopus: I've tried it, I don't like it much. But for sure better than that burger with chips in it.
Salento or Cilento ? Are both beautiful Italy coasts, but different
the mistake is going to a fast food in Italy..... :D
yeah.. couldn't agree more also because local "fast" food costs even less! Btw if you're interested, I also have a travel channel with vlogs from Greece and Italy if you want to check it out ❤️
Why? There is a lot of great fastfood/streetfood in Italy
@@qdaniele97 Because it's not in our culture and the real Italian cuisine is in slow food, sit, relax, eat and take your time appreciating the moment.