Thursday, April 24, 2014

Day 1 in Sardinia Continued


Italy Journal
April 20, 2014, continued
Easter Day

Day #1 continued in Cagliari, Sardinia



This was a strange day not to be in church! Easter is a special day for us, and it did feel good to see so many Italians getting together as families to celebrate this big day in the Italian calendar. Unfortunately, we missed going to church because of our flight. We’ll definitely check the calendar better before we fly on Easter weekend again!

We were so pleased to find this snail on our walk today. It reminded us of the Slow Food snail, and we wanted to show it to all of you. Of course, it looks big in this picture, but its shell was really just about as big around as a half dollar…still really cute, though.

We were super pleased to find the Museum of Archeology open this afternoon. We discovered that one of the very big finds in Sardinian history was GIANT SOLDIERS (10 feet tall at least) carved out of rock. Those were unearthed around 1970; and, in a different location, these tiny, ancient bronze statues were unearthed many years ago. What’s interesting about that is that there are bronze statues that are exactly like some of the Giant Soldiers. Fascinating!

What an interesting part of Italy Sardinia is!

Colleen

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