Great day out in Cagliari

Well a new day dawned and everyone in A1 shape. Amazing what a sleep and a refund can do for ya.
Unfortunately Kelly was harassed by the great mosquito population of Perd’e Sali during the night in her nuns cell downstairs. During the night she got up to spray herself with mossie spray but had grabbed her hairspray in the dark instead LOL 🤣. Much laughter retelling us the story in the morning. The rest of us had not one bite so an improvement from valencia’s bitey events.
The gardener was supposed to arrive by 8.30 to do the lawns and fix the mossie window covers, and we were leaving by 9.30am in our highly priced personal service taxi (not) but by 9.20 no sign and our host said there had been an accident on the highway. He did arrive just as we were leaving so google translate came in handy once again. Told him to come back at 4.00 to do the windows and he was very agreeable.
Cagliari, wow! We went to the old town and first stop as always coffee. We reckon they just wave the coffee under the frother to make it look good, cos the coffee is only ever warm. Then around the corner to walk the street up the hill, shopping. Past a good 2 hours doing that (possibly only 100m walk) but we did help the economy very well. Shoes, clothes, jewellery all purchased, (some ninja shoppers more than others) I even walked out of one shop wearing a new dress, and finally found some shorts! YAY.
Back down the hill to have lunch, lasagne for Susie and I, Kel got her cabonara, Lulu got the prawns and calamari in tempura, and Beth gluten free spaghetti. Nice Sardinia sparkling wine, Aperols and Rose finished it off spectacularly. Kel went off for a special purchase and the rest of us decided to get one of everything for dessert (3) and an extra spoon. Tiramisu, Brownie, and Apple Souffle….OMG they were amazing. best tiramasu ever.
Saw a little 8 seater golf cart doing tours, so jumped in, 15 Euro each and we all agree its the best tour we have had. Much better than a hoho bus by far. Our guide was lovely, he had english tour information playing. Stopped to let us out to take photos, and we just ambled along at a lovely pace down narrow streets, up hills, and wondered at the amount of cars around the place - made you wonder how the heck you get on if another car is coming up the hill.
Awesome views, Cagliari is a large city, we could see for miles.
back to the drop off and supermarket was across the road. Phoned Simone to get him to come get us (40 min wait time) and went to get our stock up. Everyone gets to fetch and carry, and select what they want and what we need.
Out we came laden with bags of goodies, Kel and Susie had the usual Gelato (passionfruit and Lemoney) and there was Simone pulling up. timing perfecto!
Back home, our gardener was here and doing the jobs. We had some funny translation moments, but nice guy and everyone is on a high at the successful day. A swim in the gorgeous pool end our day sojourn well.
Chicken pieces, roasted spuds and salad for dinner. Bloody mossies are back in force so inside to eat. Earlyish night for most, its tiring shopping ya know.
Reset and refocus worked Jenny… thanks for the pep talk.
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