A Week in Sardinia (7/7)

 

These pictures were taken while touring the north half of the island of Sardinia in November 2005.

  

 

 

 

Armies march on their stomachs, but cities survive on sanitation. Tharros was no exception, but the Roman civil engineers here had a further neat trick. They built sewers but then paved over them to make roads strong enough for heavy carts. It provided a good basis for city-living until around 1000 AD, when repeated pirate raids pushed inhabitants further inland.

 

 

 

 

Our last night was in Bosa, on Sardinia's west coast between Oristano to the south and Alghero further north, where we ate and stayed at the Hotel Sa Pischedda. This view from our balcony the next morning shows the town's palm-lined canal, which connects to Bosa's harbour - out of view to the left.

We had a 3rd floor room. The hotel had no lift, but it did have style and a marble staircase lined with trailing plants and 100-year old photos.

 

 

 

 

 

Fennel grows wild on Sardinia. This fennel bulb however was bought at a grocery in Bosa. Mark is holding it aloft, on a short pause for breath after our steep walk to the town's extensive fortress - which alas closed early for lunch.

Sardinians like their food.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Italy lost territory after the second world war in what today is modern-day Croatia and Slovenia. Some refugee Italians from there were resettled here in Fertilia.

We stopped here after filling up with petrol, prior to dropping off our hire car at nearby Alghero airport. It was a glorious sunny afternoon so we stopped for the view looking southeast from Fertilia's harbour to Alghero in the distance. The hills beyond that were part of that morning's drive from Bosa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hours before boarding our plane back to Stansted, we spotted this feature in Fertilia. Are they children's seaside windmills, boat propellers, wind turbines, or flowers?

Thank you for looking through our pictures taken on our holiday in Sardinia.

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