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Just watched some catch up TV and it brought back some fond memories.
This is the link to BBC iPlayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09m8hw5
Particularly from 8min 40secs to 25min 18secs
Carloforte and Tuna fishing

But stop the video ate 8min 45 secs - anyone recognise the ferry?
Tip you can see her old name on her bow if you stop the video at that point.

Sorry for those of you who are not in the UK - maybe you can get hold of a VPN connection to watch it.
BBC iPlayer is only available inside the UK.

I'm afraid that the Hairy Bikers have their own way to present beautiful places.
They have masses of enthusiasm that makes up for the way that they present these places.
A really light hearted programme that I recommend watching.
 
Mike, I watched the programme the other night and was going to post the same link. It's worth a watch to appreciate why MapisM keeps his boat there and why others (including myself) raved about the place when we joined him there for a while a couple of years ago.

Mike, is the featured restaurant the one we visited on our last night? MapisM, it's run by someone called Andreas. The food was superb (I loved the raw Tuna done three ways). I can't recall being offered Tuna testicles but I'd have given them a go!

I do hope to return, wither by boat or perhaps rent a sports car and spend a week touring the islands.
 
Hurricane said:
Sorry for those of you who are not in the UK - maybe you can get hold of a VPN connection to watch it.
BBC iPlayer is only available inside the UK.
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Unfortunately it will have to wait until I get back to the UK but I think I know the ferry question. I will leave it somebody else to answer!
 
We watched it and loved it. Really looking forward to next week and Corsica. Mike keep your eyes pealed for ideas. Once you get back I will pull together the planning lunch.

And that is my 1000th post!
 
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Unfortunately it will have to wait until I get back to the UK but I think I know the ferry question. I will leave it somebody else to answer!
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Some pics then to help people - this is the ferry

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And zoomed in to her name.

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petem said:
Mike, I watched the programme the other night and was going to post the same link. It's worth a watch to appreciate why MapisM keeps his boat there and why others (including myself) raved about the place when we joined him there for a while a couple of years ago.

Mike, is the featured restaurant the one we visited on our last night? MapisM, it's run by someone called Andreas. The food was superb (I loved the raw Tuna done three ways). I can't recall being offered Tuna testicles but I'd have given them a go!

I do hope to return, wither by boat or perhaps rent a sports car and spend a week touring the islands.
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Yep - I really enjoyed the programme.
As I said, it brought back fond memories.

In the film, the bikers love the views whilst riding to the north tip of the island.
I remember the same feeling - except I was on my electric bicycle!!

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And this is the colour of the water there - near the Tuna pens.

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And only a short bike ride from the (only) town on the island - Carloforte.
I'm sure we will be back sometime.

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Hurricane said:
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But stop the video ate 8min 45 secs - anyone recognise the ferry?
Tip you can see her old name on her bow if you stop the video at that point.
Click to expand...

Ha! After seeing your first pic, I thought 'that looks just like the IOW car ferry'.... :D:D

I'll have to find a quiet night in to catch up on the iplayer. Thanks for posting.
 
Well spotted, P (and C)! :encouragement:
I suppose that those folks were in CF around the end of may/beginning of June last year, 'cause that's the timeframe when the tonnara is working.
And by that time, this year we were busy with the new toy in the Adriatic - that's why the old lady was still "closed", with the top lowered.

Good call also ref. the restaurant, Andrea is indeed the place where we had dinner all together.
I thought to go there that evening for you folks to taste it because, already back then, the place was beginning to surpass the other place right along the marina dock, which used to be the best of the island before its chef moved to Cagliari. In fact, it's no coincidence that also the bikers selected it - they must have had some good advisor for their route I suppose, because all the places where they went have their peculiarities, and not only from a gastronomic viewpoint!
Btw, it's rather likely that among the selection of mixed entrees there was also the tuna "lattume" as it's called, which is rather popular in CF and is often used as one of many different "antipasti".
So, you might actually have tried that already, though I can't swear that we had it that specific evening.

@ Hurricane: since a couple of years, the former St.Catherine was joined by her sistership St.Helen.
The two ferries are now fully replacing the previous Sibilla and Vesta, which you might remember to have seen.

A very entertaining video, many thanks for informing us.
The only drawback is that it made me feel old, because I spent the summer after the high school and before the uni in Alghero, joining my cousin who back then was running a restaurant there, working for him as a waiter. That's some 40 years ago, no less...
And back then, I had a chance to meet most of what I used to call "colleagues" of other restaurants. Benito was one of them, also because he was a close friend of my cousin.
Unfortunately, I lost contact with him after that summer. And while it's nice to see that he's still at the forefront, God, did the time take its toll...
...which is pretty much the same he would tell of myself, I can easily guess! :rolleyes:
 
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