I decided I was going to take this beach chair Filomina gave me and go just outside my door and lay in the chair and read. Sandy beach areas for sunbathing are a bit hard to find or get to in this area. A lot of the coast is rocky and impossible to walk on. So this small sandy area just outside here apparently is well known. And being Sunday there ended up being a lot of people on this small beach. It is probably 40'x50' I'm guessing. Maybe a little bigger. I found a spot on a big rock with sand on it and grass growing over it. I opened the chair and saw it was only about 3" off the ground. How was I going to get up out of that? I told myself I'd worry about it later. After a short while a couple came and set their chairs right next to mine. And then more came. My little secluded spot got filled up as did the whole beach area with several people swimming.
So I read my book. The first couple that came was a man and woman, extremely tan as everyone is here. I am WHITE. This couple was probably 55-60 yrs. old and by all accounts acted as I imagined a true Italian couple would act. She took care of his every need from helping him off with his shirt to giving him a piece of fruit to eat. He did nothing. She handed him his snorkel stuff and off he went in the water. Around noon time she got her stuff and left. I guess she went home to get his lunch ready. I'm thinking this is what this generation of Italians do.
Since I am planning on meeting Gianni next Wednesday at Euro Spin in downtown Carovigno, I thought I would go back to Carovigno to see if I could find it again. Plus I needed to find these coffee cups for my coffee maker that no one carries in town. On the way there I drove through the many olive farms again and noticed several for sale signs. Doing an olive harvest is super hard work and from what I see many young people after going to college move out of these small towns for the bigger cities where there's more opportunity for a good paying job. Gianni is getting up in years and I don't know who will take over for him when he no longer can do this work. I think his son and daughter live around Milan area with their families.
So I found Euro Spin. This is where I shopped when I lived here and was told it is owned by the same people who own Aldi's and Trader Joe's. I found the few things I needed except sunscreen. So, because I found organic olive oil (no one had it in town) I'll use that when I sit at the beach. I'll always remember when I was 16 I went to Spain and used olive oil on my skin at the beach and I had the best tan of my life. We'll see.
After Euro Spin I decided to try to find the apartment I lived in. The town square is at the very top of the town and getting there can be treacherous at best. The streets are so narrow; originally made for the donkey carts just 50 years ago when there were no cars here. Most of the roads (alleyways) are one-way and with cars parked on each side makes it almost impossible to get through. I took some videos of this. But I made it through with not a scratch on my car and without hitting anyone. I can't imagine traveling these narrow alleyways with anything wider that this car. It is a Toyota Aygo and is very little. This town is much easier getting around on foot.
Very pleasant day and I will return to walk Carovigno later.
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