We chose to go to the beach and start hiking and from then it was full-on. We started by climbing a hill path to an old tower, with stunning views of the sea and the town of Cagliari

A selection of poems dedicated to our journey in Sardinia

A real adventure is when you are completely clueless about what is going on. As my input had been zero, all I knew was that we would be in Sardinia for 8 days

Then we had one of the best evenings of the trip, making pasta with a local Italian grandmother, making local gnocchi and ravioli. We got competitive trying to roll the roundest bread