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Archeological Area and Museum of Saint Eulaliàs Treasure

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    • Day 24

      Great day out in Cagliari

      September 27, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      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.
      Tomorrow is lie about in the sun, swim, relax and enjoy what we came for.
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    • Day 26

      Oops a bit late 28/29 combined

      September 29, 2023 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 23 °C

      Sorry about that, I have been relaxing… we stayed home on Thursday and had a day around the pool, swam in the ocean (so salty my feet kept floating to the top even when swimming). Lulu adored being able to just walk in and frolic in the mediterranean, with an almost flat calm. Beth and I braved it first, honestly like bath water, and then Suzie and Lulu had a dip for ages. Kel chose to keep the pool going and we read, sunbathed, relaxed.
      Late afternoon/nighttime is a real issue here with the mossies, and it was my turn to be attacked. We went to Pula for dinner to have a look around because the shops shut from 1ish to 5ish in Sardinia, so did a little shopping. Nearly all of us purchased something, then off to dinner, and lucky Lulu and I took the mossie spray with us, because jeez they were diabolocal. I seemed to have been bitten under my chin and in my elbow creases…which has cause an allergic reaction! Bloody hell they are bad. Rubbed every single cream I owned into them but not much relief. So this morning was bigger doses of antihistamines and steriods which has improved them alot. Not much sleep and today we planned to be off to the market in Cagliari, have a long lunch and then just nibbles and drinks.
      So off we trot with our €90 taxi into town, and he duly takes us to the markets…. is a bloody food market, and the ‘clothes’ something like you might find on the streets of Marrakesh. So all opted out of that, and went and had a coffee.
      We then decided to go back to our ‘hood’ (familiarity is comforting when ya have no idea where ya are), the girls were asking a shop assistant, but she was pretty limited in English so came out of the shop and Beth is chatting with a young man pushing his baby around and he spoke fluent english and gave us directions to either walk to the Old town Square or catch a bus.
      Followed said instructions and spotted the bus stop so dived over there as the No. 1 arrived. Girls get on, Lulu is asking questions, horns are tooting behind us, ‘get on Diane’ said Kel so
      he can shut the doors, and he starts driving off! Lulu is say ‘Old Town’ he is shrugging so I showed him the google translater….. ding ding ding… he says ohhhhh olD town, emphasis on the D…he thought she was say ole town or something. No wrong bus. you needed to catch the bus on the other side of the road. So off we get at the next stop, walk around the corner and bus arrives. Off we go. And yes it took us all the way to exactly where we wanted to be. Phew…could of ended up anywhere.
      Decided lunch was in order.. changed restuarant from the other day…and then wished we hadn’t. Wasn’t awful but we have had better.
      some would shop, Kel wasn’t feeling inclined so she was left with the currency card and would top up our stocks.
      Simone our private taxi 🤪 was messaged, ‘the girls are ready’ and off we went. Of course we forgot that most of the shops were closed for siesta and the ones open we had seen the other day. A couple of smiling faces at the end, but the rest of us were just ready for home.
      Came back and there are people in next door (the other half of the villa) and they have kids, and they are swimming in ‘our’ pool. Not happy campers. We knew an ‘Aunty’ was coming, not 2 families. So 4 adults and 5 kids… and as I write this at 9.34pm they have decided to go swimming 😩
      Suzie and Kel of course want to see the All Blacks play but even tho its vs Italy, nobody in Sardinia could give a rats arse about it. So kiwi ingenuity to the fore…We have set up a messenger video call with Suzie’s sister in Timaru, she has her camera set up facing the tv and the girls are watching on the ipad here. Mad I know, but hell it works. Beth, Lulu and I are in our beds… not as keen a fans as we thought 😝
      Note the full body mossie armour this evening 🤣
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