Sardegna Hotel Cagliari

... turned up and Jen had stepped in to take up the lessons aboard. The two children Orlando and Allegra were very nice kids. Jen was worried as she got seasick easily. A cheery lass from Seattle - the same as Bradley, so they had common ground from the word go.

The boat looked very tired, but the worry was that there was so much gear we felt should have been there in tip top condition, and it wasn't. Oh dear!! Kevin was helping ...

... I had a realisation. A kind of Epiphany if you want to talk in Buffy and Angel speak.

After seeing that Australian girl on the boat and meeting a lot of 18 year old travelers over the past week or 2 it has become clear to me that I am as Danny Glover would say “Too old for this S*#t” Well not for traveling. That is something that I believe people of all ages should do. But, I think I am too old to be traveling for the sake of traveling. I.e. A ...

... so, then they were asking how it is driving here as neither of them had driven abroad before. We left them deciding if they were going to try and get reception to order them a taxi to leave and "cut their losses". I thought it was a big shame because it’s so beautiful here.

We were going to Villasimius first today – it’s the tourist town for Italian people here along the south coast. Its about 20 miles away and we were headed there to ...

... there are remains of thermal baths, mosaics and the only amphitheatre on Sardinia.

We end up spending most of the day here – exploring the ruins, walking up to the tower and the surrounding areas. Food has been incredibly expensive in Sardinia and we find a place for lunch that has the most reasonable prices we've seen so far. There is a really sweet looking cat sat right beside me, so I feed it some of my ...

... to find our way down to a deserted cove at one point, where we stopped for a drink break for a while, but eventually we had to accept that we were beaten and head back on the path to the beach.

We walk back along the beach, past where we originally joined, to the other end to see if we could get any more joy that way. After clambering across the rocks this end, we come to another sheltered cove, but again no way of going any further – so we decide ...

... met by a highly excitable John, who was now looking back at the river shaking his head – crazy boy!!

So, we check the car for damage and amazingly seem to have got away unscathed. We continue on and both agree that really it was far too deep to cross in that little car and we shouldn’t have done it, all in amongst fits of giggles. I think we had long left any road that was potentially on the map, but I felt it couldn’t be much longer before we actually came ...

... and around Cagliari looking for a road in the right direction - and it didn't seem to matter which road we took or which direction we went in - we ended up back in Sestu. I've seen more of that small town than anyone ever had a right to!!

Eventually we found the right road, or at least a road that finally took us away. By this time it was late afternoon and we hadn’t had any food since about 6am, so we needed to find somewhere to fill John’s ...

... in the Mediterranean Sea off of Italy. It’s not the island that is “being kicked by the boot”, but rather north of that and right next to Corsica (French island). To be honest, when my boyfriend was talking about Sardinia, I had absolutely NO idea what he was talking about…”just smile and nod” was my thought process!

We were greeted at the airport by family, who had prepared and brought pizza, beer, and water. Upon ...

... amused ourselves people watching and strangely dog watching because as we were to find out on the rest of the island you can take your dog just about anywhere with you, even the airport. Eventually Cesca's parents arrived and we headed off to find the hire car we had pre-booked. This was easier said than done as they had cleverly hidden the depot well outside the airport down a back road. Our car was clean enough on the inside but filthy on the outside. It took me ...

... desde 1881, las camareras eran chinas, y probamos los carbonaras aunq dicen que el mejor sitio esta en calle barcelona y se llama la barceloneta, pero el lunes cierran como muchas tiendas (tocate los cojones mariloles). me lo recomendo el del BB y una anciana q estaba en un balcon a la q pregunte. despues quedamos con una amiga de luka supermaja y nos hizo el paseillo. capuchino, helado de limoncelo y ...