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Europe » Italy » Sardinia » Cagliari July 1st 2022

Yes. Last minute vacations can work. With due stress and the vagaries of trying to book cheap airline flights at ungodly hours and figure out how to get to the airport or hire cars and accommodation a few days before departure. All in all, last minute vacations are great. An unexpected spontaneous ray of mid week, much needed sunshine. On the beachfront. An entire week of glorious Sardinian sun; azure waters and open air showers. Despite my frequent posts to this blog and my profound love of words I am failing to describe how healing this week was for me. As if the sun seeped not only onto my skin, painting it several shades darker but also into my skin quenching an unidentifiable thirst for vitamins, for rest, for recuperation, for the idle joy of doing ... read more
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Europe » Italy » Sardinia » Alghero May 31st 2022

Our time in Sicily had come to an end…..and frankly, we were ready. Our last stop in Palermo rekindled our warmth for the province, but still, we found ourselves eager to move on. With many years of international travel, we had faced many hurdles, but between being eager to depart Sicily and the challenges we faced, it made for some frustration. When you travel, things will occasionally go awry, but this travel day had special challenges…. Travel Challenges It would prove to be a test of our travel mettle and for us, that is saying something. We had arranged with the hotel for a taxi to pick us up in Palermo at 430am and take us to the airport for our flight to Sardinia. The taxi didn’t show up so we made a call to another ... read more
Stunning Sardinian seaside
Driving in the Sardinian countryside.
Church in Olbia

Europe » Italy » Sardinia » Olbia December 27th 2021

Europe » Italy » Sardinia May 7th 2021

9th May http://www.heygo.com This was the description by Silvia on the heygo location page ! Who doesn’t enjoy a walk along a beautiful beach. The area of The South West Coast is the most uncontaminated part of the island, characterized by a wild and enchanting charm, where the Mediterranean vegetation on the rugged rocks creates a play of unique and surprising shades. Sardinian by adoption, thanks to my husband’s Sardinian origins, Sardinia has generously welcomed me and in this tour, I will be happy to show you one of its most beautiful sides. What a beautiful walk it was too, the pictures tell the story with the silvery color of the rocks, green and turquoise of the sea and by the Mediterranean vegetation. It was so enjoyable that when another tour came up to visit another ... read more

Europe » Italy » Sardinia » Alghero August 6th 2019

We still can’t quite believe that we drove an hour to get to La Pelosa Beach yesterday (and it was a truly stunning beach), but we then had to turn around and come back again because we couldn’t find a square millimetre of unoccupied sand to lay our towels on. Issy reminds me that we walked about ten kilometres along a pristine sand beach about an hour from home last summer, without seeing a single other human being. We make a note to remember to never again take our Aussie beaches for granted. We discuss some other observations we’ve made about life here. We’ve seen lots of Italian parents here with children of other races, who we assume must be adopted. You hardly ever see this back home, and we understand that Aussie adoption laws are ... read more
Beach Rules 1
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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 » Alghero August 4th 2019

We’re still trying to work out what our accommodation, the Starry Sky Charming House, really is. Mr Google says it’s a four star hotel, but it clearly isn’t because it doesn’t have any hotel facilities. It does have hotel size rooms, but they’re jammed into an apartment block, and are certainly way too small to be called apartments. The establishment itself refers to itself as a guest house, but it’s not a house, and the only guest houses I’ve ever stayed in have at least had a lounge, a bar, a reception area and a restaurant, and it certainly doesn’t have anything even vaguely resembling any of those. We decide to settle for “boarding house”; for which we’re paying four star hotel prices. I’ve decided that I need to try to stop thinking about our accommodation, ... read more
Porto Conte
Neptune’s Grotto
Steps up the cliff from Neptune’s Grotto

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

Europe » Italy » Sardinia » Bosa August 2nd 2019

Today we decide to visit the small town of Bosa which is about 30 kms south of Alghero. The views from the road along the rocky mountainous coastline are spectacular. There’s very little in way of habitation along the route; no villages, just steep shrub covered mountains, with few if any trees. I read up a bit about the history of Sardinia. It’s the second largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily, and like most places in this region, everyone who's anyone from around the Mediterranean seems to have had a go at attacking and occupying it over the journey. The Sardinians seem to have been good at banding together to try to repel external invaders, but they then seem to have spent most of the intervening periods fighting each other. This doesn’t seem to make ... read more
Coastline between Alghero and Bosa
Coastline between Alghero and Bosa
Bosa

Europe » Italy » Sardinia » Alghero August 1st 2019

Our accommodation is a bit unusual, and that’s being kind. It was very hard to find when we arrived here late last night; the last thing the GPS said as we approached it from a few different directions was “enter the roundabout”, and then .... silence. It’s called “Starry Sky Charming House”, but it’s not a house, it’s a collection of small hotel type rooms in an apartment block. It’s not really all that charming either, and the ”Starry Sky“ is a rather odd collection of tiny blue lights in the bathroom ceiling that you can turn on if you want to feel like you’re under the stars, although I think you’d also need to have ingested a fair quantity of hallucinogenic substances if you really wanted to feel that way. The owners seem to be ... read more
Alghero Old Town
Chiesa Di San Francesco
Keeping the music going on the Alghero waterfront




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