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Europe » Italy » Sardinia » Stintino August 5th 2019

Issy really liked La Pelosa Beach when we went there on Saturday, so we decide to head there again and spend the day lazing on the sand. It was very crowded there on Saturday and hard to park, so we hope that it might be a little less so today on workday Monday when hopefully all good Sardinians will be slaving away back at their desks. The traffic gets very heavy as we get close to the beach, and it now seems even heavier than it was on Saturday. If half of Sardinia was here then, the whole of Italy feels like it’s here today, plus the populations of a couple of other smaller European countries thrown in for good measure. We wonder why Sardinians aren‘t at work like they should be, and what we might ... read more
Alghero Cathedral from the belltower
View from the Alghero Cathedral belltower
Alghero Cathedral Museum

Europe » Italy » Sardinia » Stintino August 3rd 2019

The rock concert that was still vibrating the walls of our room at 1am must have eventually stopped, and we awake to the pleasant surprise that the owners of our accommodation, the Starry Sky Charming House, haven’t broken into our room overnight and thrown all our belongings over the balcony into the street. They clearly haven’t discovered our blog posts from the last two days yet, but we mustn’t get complacent; we’ve still got four more nights here to endure. Today’s destination is La Pelosa Beach near Stintino in the north west corner of the island about 30 kms from Alghero. Unlike yesterday‘s mountainous coastal drive, today’s route takes us through fertile looking agricultural land with more than the odd vineyard. We were warned that La Pelosa can get very crowded, and it does indeed feel ... read more
La Pelosa Beach
La Pelosa Beach
La Pelosa Beach




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