On the way to Salerno

Today is special...
In the morning we headed pretty early to Contrada. Got a coffee and pistachio croissant in a cafe, chatted with the English barman and sat down in the park to have muesli as breakfast. Suddenly Pascale passed with his old and ill dog and started to talk. He is also often on the road in Italy and Spain. Using a wheelbarrow for his dog. We've chatted and he asked me to have s shower. He lives pretty close. So I could clean myself, have a coffee and he asked to join me for awhile. Sure. So in some minutes he was prepared and has had packed his backpack with tent etc.. Je prepared the wheelbarrow and e. Started to walk together into the next town.
Unfortunately one lucky incident happened after the other. The sun was strong and the dogs got too hot. A bus driver who passed stopped, but did not take us with. I couldn't understand the discussion. But don't minutes later a friend of Pascale passed with his van and took us 3km further into the village. We've got water and refreshment and headed further. Only after minutes, the wheel got a flat. The tire is too old. Loses air. So all in all Pascale decided it is not the right time. And he headed back home and me and Lupo further to the next supermarket to do for the next days. The Amalfi coast.
I realized again, (even it has been raining a few times already) that the air at such s low elevation is warm and humid. Lupo didn't want to walk. We slowly hiked out of town and a thunderstorm came closer. Lupo is afraid of thunderstorms and stopped immediately.
I've found a shed to get some shelter if it really starts. About 15min there was not really much. Some wind from time to time. We've nevertheless waited done more minutes. And then you could hear it for some seconds.... The wind? No. It was the approaching strong rain. Crazy. A real hefty shower. So I used that time to write these lines. But can not publish it now, cause Internet data limit is used completely. I must wait 3 days I guess. So I am offline for awhile. Probably that's okay. I should not spend too much time on the phone anyway. :)Meer informatie