We have a breakfast of different foods than we have been eating (the FULLS from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England). There are poached eggs with prosciutto and cheese, hard boiled eggs, fresh croissants and cold meats (salami and prosciutto) and cheese. I am over my bad day 🙂 We hop into our Opel car and head across the island to the small town of La Ciaccia where we have 3 nights in a small apartment booked. We will have a kitchen, control over our breakfast and a fridge in which to store some Italian beer!
We are finding driving here much different than in Scotland, Ireland and Wales. There the speed limits are crazy high, but the drivers don’t normally do the limit and are patient with those of us who definitely are not comfortable at those speeds, on those roads!! Here the limits seem slow to us while the drivers seem to routinely go double the limits. They are aggressive and sit on your butt!!
We find a spot with a nice view and pull over for a photo.
Beautiful!!
Disappointing!!
From what I have been reading it is an issue in Sardinia and other parts of the world obviously. Still is sad to see what people do to a beautiful place.
We arrive at our little town at about 11:30 and struggle a bit to find our place. Eventually we do and decide to see if our room is ready. Luckily it is and we are able to check in. The young lady at Reception is very nice and spends some time explaining the history of Sardinia and that it too has Neolithic era ruins. She told us that for about 400 years Sardinia was part of Spain. They speak a Catalonian dialect in parts of Sardinia and have a very Spanish influence in their cuisine. Interesting.
After a bit of a history lesson we get down to the really important questions. Where can we buy beach clothes!!! We have shorts (I have a skort), but we haven’t worn them. As we drove here I watched the temperature gauge on the car go from 19c when we started up to 22c and then back down to 19c when we were in the mountains. Back up to 22c and then to 25c!!!! We didn’t get past 15c in the British Isles. This feels wonderful. She tells us that there is a “Superstore” in the next larger town called Villadoria. So off we go, but not before she warns us that the Reception will be closed between 1 and 4. Ah yes we remember now, Siesta Time in Italy. Sure enough most businesses are closed when we return. We picked up a swim suit and flip flops for me. Then down to the grocery department to pick up breakfast fixings, lunch fixings, beer and 2 bottles of wine. We paid less for each bottle of Sardinian wine than we paid for one teeny tiny glass in Dublin!! Seriously!! We paid 7.60 (11.20 CAD) Euros for the glass and 3.69 (5.44 CAD) and 4.89 (7.21 CAD) Euros for the bottles!! We also bought a couple of 3 packs of Peroni (weird 3 packs, bottles 3 in a line, very unstable on the checkout line) and a two pack of a beer called Ichnusa which is a Sardinian beer. I checked in at Reception with a 3 pack of Peroni in my hands and the lady tells me that I shouldn’t buy Peroni, I should buy the Sardinian beer. I was happy to be able to tell her that we did buy some and did enjoy it shortly on our little patio!!
Here is our little place.
We respect “Siesta Time” and have a siesta ourselves. We are also reading the books we picked up in London. Nice recharge time. After that we head out for a walk to check out our area. We are sitting in the sun wearing much less clothing than 48 hours ago!! Happily 🙂 Stu gets some great shots.
Later on we head out to dinner. It is cooler, so we put our jeans back on. There is really only 2 restaurants in this town. So we walk to the closest one. We order pasta, me Ravioli and Mussels, Stu spaghetti with clams. Both very good. This is so different than in Britain where kitchens close at 9 or before. We are finishing around 9 and people are still arriving. Yes that is most of Europe for you. Very civilized 🙂
