Abruzzo - what to see and do?

Abruzzo  - Pescara Region.
http://turismo.egov.regione.abruzzo.it/web/guest/scoprilabruzzo/lanatura/zonedelterritorio/majella


We are a family of mummy, papa and three young children aged 7,5 and 3. We also have a old dog Ramsay with us aged nearly 14. He always goes on holiday with us.

We decided  to drive to Abruzzo for our yearly family holiday. I had done a lot of research and this region of Italy had everything we needed: mountains, nature and also sea. 

We took just under three days to drive to Pescara. We drove through Germany and Switzerland. We got a Swiss toll pass before we left from the ANWB and it meant we could just drive through the toll tunnel without a problem. We slept in Germany, France and Bolgna on the way. 

With hindsight, driving was a waste of money (petrol) and also time, but it was part of the holiday to see all the changes in landscape and house styles. Don't stop in Switzerland if you can help it - we stopped for lunch and icecream and used euros as we didn't have any Swiss francs. What an expensive stop that was! 

You can easliy cheaply fly to Pescara, a beautiful city by the sea from most Dutch, Germand and UK airports. We had Ramsay with us, so we had to drive this time. 

We arrived at the unassumiing agriturismo,(earlier blog) but once through the gates we saw what a lovely idyliic place this was going to be. Lots of land, pools, animals and mountains in the distance. 

Go and see the Majella Mountains - drive slowly through the plateau, you might be lucky to see herders with their huge tan cows and big bells. They also have huge white herder dogs with them. We stopped at what looked like someones house but they were serving delicous, cheap food. 

Buy some local organic olive oil, the growers are all over the place but you usually have to be brave and ring the doorbell. 

Enjoy the fac that are hardly any other European tourists - this place is a real hidden gem!