In which Sid and Doris nearly fail to engage with a quite engaging little town.
We blame the local police, actually. Some sort of passing-out parade was being organised in the harbour-front police station, causing much diversion and parking confusion and we nearly found ourselves on the way back to the hotel.
Shugi finally parked up, a walk around the town yielded ice cream but not much in the way of tourist or photo opportunities, except for the compulsory santon village. Any reader(s) interested in building old wooden boats might appreciate this. There is also a useful illustration of How To Grow Vines In Volcanic Soil, with the holy family sheltering under the volcano crater.
We have a few other pictures. Theme 1: Things Made Of Basalt. Because when basalt’s what you’ve got, basalt’s what you use. For wharfs, churches, or anything else really.
Theme 2: Conveyance of the Day. A (justly) neglected theme, this includes the world’s smallest car gathering at the marina, a car with artwork designed by the great man himself, and a much-loved but as we heard very difficult to start or keep running red Fiat Panda with a checkered roof (in the background behind, yes, another santon village).
Theme 3: Interesting boats in the marina. Including one with a very interesting three-boom rig, a boat with all the weather protection of a tea tray which says it has come over from Newport RI, and one that might have caused some debate in the hull-painting workshop.
Theme 4: Birds! Yesterday in Haria we heard a bird sounding like a robin on steroids, and the amazing Merlin Bird Sound App told us that we had heard an Island Canary in the Canary Islands. Fantastic? And today a bird that might or might not be a little egret was photobombing someone’s video call to her grandchildren at breakfast.
That’s all I’ve got time for now. Yesterday’s Entertainment was a magic show, so we must hasten down for an early dinner to bag a front seat for tonight’s event…
PS Fangirl time with a statue to celebrate the GM’s would-be-100th birthday.
Some say boats are representations of the owners’ personalities. The three-boom schooner owner and the folks from Newport would have only brief conversations.