Ways to tell you are not in Sardinia

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1. Vanishingly low number of interesting Nuragic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuraghe) monuments in the vicinity .  Oh all right, none then.
2. You can't buy 1/4 litre of delicious Sardinian white wine for 2.50 Euros down the local (although Cambridge Wine Merchants are selling Vermentino at £9.50 a bottle).
3. Also, delicious red Nepente from Oliena not available at Sainsbury's.
4. Small brown thing lying idly on kitchen floor is not a cicada or a lizard (in fact is a piece of cardboard)
5. The following pasta sauces generally not available in the vicinity:  crab, bottarga, sea urchin
6. No lovely sliced jamon for breakfast. 
7. Local vegetation does not consist of pine and oak woods with mastic, myrtle and strawberry trees, but mostly of buddleia.  No, that is unfair - we have rosemary in the garden too, and rosemary was growing wild on the mountains.
8. Oh, and the weather - warm, dry, a bit windy.  Here, we have the local rain.

So yes, we had a lovely time walking in Sardinia.  We saw wildlife (including fallow deer with horns - sorry, antlers - and the back end of a wild boar).  We climbed up mountains and down grottoes, and ambled along the edge of the coast, and visited many interesting Nuraghe (constructed by the pre-Phoenician inhabitants of Sardinia, possibly on Mycenaean models).  And it is lovely to be back and see Michael and the cats.  But I think I have acquired a serious addiction to Sardinian food and wine.  Oops.

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great place. (I think the back end of a wild boar is prbably the right end to see!)