Sardinia

In that slouched sort of manner often adopted by smokers, or teenagers, my Sardinian friend and I sit on our haunches on the steps of a stone patio, outside a little Sardinian house. My friend’s grandmother lived in it, once. She also died here, many years ago, in the room overlooking the orange trees. This week, however, the little house is ours. Cicada’s hum incessantly, creating a background buzz like left-on stereo speakers. Easing myself back, I stretch out my legs in the October sunshine, which is dappled between the foliage of Frangipanis. Further along the road, there are the occasional shouts of children, the echoing bounce of a football, the ...  Read the complete review

Listen, do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? (Hope you’re singing along with me!) I don’t usually tell my secrets but this is so special I want to share it. Holidays. We do need then now and again, and we were really looking forward to visiting Sardinia when BANG, the airline ran into problems and folded and we had to cancel the holiday as there wasn’t another suitable flight. Fortunately we had four months to arrange an alternative and after much pouring over travel brochures and browsing the net we decided to book our own flights through Lastminute.com (if interested in their services see my review!)and stay at an apartment through ...  Read the complete review

It was Cyprus that Saki described as having "produced more history than could be consumed locally," but the same could be said of almost any of the Mediterranean's larger islands, and certainly of Sardinia. * One is reminded of Sardinia's history almost on arrival, assuming one has come the cheap way, by Ryanair to Alghero in the north-west of the island. Alghero is a handsome town, in its older parts at least, with a fortified promontory jutting out into the sea to guard the port. Within the old walls is a rabbit-warren of narrow streets and small squares, crammed with mediaeval buildings including some fine churches with ...  Read the complete review

We decided on a Sardinian holiday after visiting Corsica last year. The islands are very similar with the obvious exception of one being French and the other being Italian. On the whole, the roads in Sardinia are better than Corsica and it is certainly cheaper to get to (£120 round trip through RyanAir flying from Stansted to Alghero). We stayed in Porto San Paolo which is on the north east coast just below Olbia. This time we decided to everything ourselves so the flights were booked through the RyanAir web site, we booked a car through the easyautos website (www.easyautos.co.uk) and the apartment through the web also. This worked out a hell of a lot ...  Read the complete review

We are not well travelled, but decided to take advantage of the Ryanair cheap flights to Alghero in Sardinia February 2003. We found very little information on the internet so I hope the following helps a few fellow travellers. Alghero Airport: We took the 8.45 flight from London Stansted to Alghero-Fertilia and arrived local time at 12.00. However there was not a bus to Alghero until 14.20. The bus fare would have been 1.81 euros but we decided to share a taxi with two fellow travellers which cost 7.50 euros per person including tips. Do go to the Tourist Information Desk and arm yourself with a map of Alghero.The gentleman there spoke very good English. ...  Read the complete review