Cisternino, Puglia, Italy. Tuesday 01-June-2025.
The electricity supply in the old town is delivered by cables running along walls at first floor height and across alleyways.
The power company is currently renewing the cables in the alleyway behind us and in several surrounding streets. They do give advance warning by sticking notices on everybody’s door in the affected streets about a week before the works.
Bad planning on our part as we forgot the date - I had an Italian lesson booked for that afternoon and Mary started a wash load in the morning (which got stuck in the machine). Beach was planned for the next day. We were at home for the day without power and no aircon on a day due to peak at 32°C.
The fibre-optic broadband cables run along the same brackets as the power cables. Although the works didn’t affect the broadband, without power the modem and Wi-Fi router were out of action so no internet access for the day.Three cheers for mobile data on our phones! Well at least until they ran out of battery!!
This is the view from under our apartment back along Via La Fiera.
The old cables coiled up certainly looked like they were in need of upgrading.
The local Aqua and Sapone Shop (a bit like Superdrug in the UK) hired a mobile generator for the day to keep their lights on.
The power came back on at 4 o’clock as per the notice and back on went the air-conditioning. Normal life resumed.
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