This is John Batstra, conversation with my good friend Lorenzo Fiore of the Insadler Foundation about Sardinia, an invitation from the Sardinian authorities for backpackers, hikers, under 35 who can stay three nights for free hiking along

the southwestern coast. An area not much settled, not much visited.

Hiking pass extend all the way up around the winding coast,

filled with abandoned mines, 2,000 yearold mines, large cuts in the side.

And Lorenzo describes it perfectly.

The trip to Sardinia is from the mainland coast.

I've never made it but Lorenzo tells me that it's

well worth the while to travel there. Sardinia Italy, the southwestern coast, the hiking

trails, three nights are free if you're under 35 and I

recommend. I'm not under 35, I still recommend. This is Lorenzo Fiore on

Sardinia.

More of this later.

Well, this is another beautiful area,

not discovered by many people.

I went there many years ago with a friend of mine who was living in the Valierie, which is the most important town of Sardinia, the capital of Sardinia.

It's the southwest. And I remember at that time I could drive many miles on gravel road

passing through abandoned mines, plenty of green of trees that are typical of the Mediterranean vegetation.

And I can tell you that there is a beautiful road that goes in the inner land and arrive at the very remote area where there is a Roman temple, the temple of Antas in the middle of the Cork Forest.

I have a beautiful memory of that area and I do recommend everybody to go there.

By the way, even the cost is fantastic.

I remember swimming into a cove's

just fronting the Mediterranean Sea on the west side,

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