Check this story out to find out about the first four days of my Italy trip, which I spent in the beautiful province of Oristano, chilling on the beach, meeting new people, and doing my best to conquer the jetlag :)
Where do I even start? Possibly my arrival at Cagliari airport would be a good idea. So after having checked the weather forecasts since about the beginning of June on a weekly basis, and being delighted to see that rain is apparently an unknown phenomenon in Sardinia, I was rather astonished to find myself in the middle of a thunderstorm. That's right people. After about 30 hours of travel (and not having slept a wink) I had to hire a car and drive by myself for 1 1/2 hours in the rain and dark (except for the lightning flashes) to an unknown destination. The GPS did a great job in getting me fairly close to the caravan park I was headed for, however, since I didn't have an exact address, the voice told me I had reached my destination when I was in the middle of a roundabout! This could have been rather traumatic, except that just as I was entering full panic mode, I spotted a police car, the driver of which was very happy to assist me (by giving me the wrong directions :). To cut a long story short, I finally found the place and it turned out to be really nice (when seen by daylight). There was a dream of a beach literally 30 seconds from our cabin, and the surroundings were just gorgeous.
The next day (which was hot hot hot and showed no signs of the previous night's storm) I picked up the other girls from the airport and we went past the town of Torre Grande (Big Tower) on our way to the caravan park. Torre Grande is on another beautiful beach, and this was actually where I made my great discovery: namely that the idea of me returning to Australia in January is a big joke. Seriously guys, I am not leaving this country till I am evicted, or extradited, or whatever the word is. It is INCREDIBLE!!! The weather is AMAZING, the beaches are UNBELIEVABLE, the people are SUPER FRIENDLY and they ALL speak Italian! What more could I ask? :) Imagine Australia, except without snakes, spiders, bugs of all kinds, mosquitoes and flies, and way better weather. Honestly when you check the photos of this place you are all going to come storming here as fast as you can. People say the economy is shot, but I say who cares? Why do you need money when you're basically living in a paradise?
Anyway so what else happened in Sardinia? Oh yeah, we went to Zinnigas for the conference, where we met tons of cool people and played volleyball in some insane heat, but it was really fun. We went to a famous beach one of the days, Is Arutas I think it was called, where the water was, no jokes, like nothing you have ever seen. I think it's because the sand here is a bit coarser/heavier than what we've got in Australia, so it stays on the bottom of the sea instead of coming into the water like it does back home, with the result that the water is just clearer than crystal, like I can't even describe it.
But hey I guess that's enough on Sardinia. Check out the photos and leave a comment if you like, I'd love to hear from you all :) Oh and by the way, you have to hover the mouse over the photos if you want to see what they're about, I couldn't get captions happening...
