Day 26: out and about

I am going to start by complaining . . . the one thing that I look forward to after spending time at the beach is a shower . . . nothing like getting all the sand and grit out of every crack of your body . . . well, that has not been possible with the shower at the apartment we are staying at . . . I mean it takes forever to get it off and then the water is 'recycled' from the sea so you can imagine how counter productive the process is.

Today we ventured to the 'big' island, Sant' Antioco, off the coast of Sardinia. Doesn't that sound funny? In my opinion it really isn't an island since there is a causeway that connects them but whatever. We arrived at the town during 'siesta' and this town completely shuts down . . . nothing is open even the grocery store closed for 3-4 hours. So we decided to go on a search for a beach . . . it was super windy today. We found many beaches and twice we convinced Colin that we should keep looking . . . he was not impressed at having to get back in the car but finally we found a sandy beach with only a few people so we backed the car up and had a couple hours of fun. Colin never noticed the topless lady laying in the sun but he so clinged to a fisherman and his family. One thing I have noticed while here is the Italians love children and are so sweet to them. Yesterday Colin was building sand castles and an older man got up and went to help him. I tell you he really loves the attention. Today I noticed him walking towards me with a banana . . . the fisherman's family had them and they gave him one . . . the mom came over to ask if it was okay. Again so kind the people have been . . . oh and the pizza and gelato (ice cream) have been fantastic too . . . today I had pistachio; YUMMY!