The first night in a new place is always a bit difficult. Where is the bathroom? What temperature should we set the heat/cooling? Mundane kinds of things, but this morning there was a odd wake up call. A rumbling and a repetitive booming sound off in the distance. My new alarm clock is an excavator right across the street working on the pier. I will have to add that to my list of site specific alarm clocks. It was 8:30 when I woke up so I was able to get a decent amount of sleep. Leslie had her own alarm clock in the form of construction going on in the apartment building behind ours. Once we had our breakfast and tea we had a nice 3 mile walk. There is a very long promenade along the water and it is just across the street from our stay. We headed in towards the center of the town, past churches, a fort, municipal sports facilities for tennis, swimming and roller blading. We came upon groupings of clear large trash bags bursting with plastic bottles. After seeing several of these we saw a pair of young men collecting the trash. We clapped to get their attention and them gave them the thumbs up!
It reminded me of my never ending trash collection back in Hollywood and how nice it was to have folks honk and give me the thumbs up too. We took a different path back to the house and we stopped for fresh veggies and some flowers along the way. Later we headed to the store using our spare suitcase as a shopping trolly.
No snooze button on this alarm clock
A great view
Dog parade
This is going to be nice
Very large viaduct on the other side of town
A castle nestled up in the hills
Another one
A big honking chair
Great sunny day
A major effort going into the creation of these rock jetties
Moving rock
The other side of Salerno
The tamarisk tree, identified thanks to Leslie's Meta glasses. Very salt tolerant and drought resistant.
Food truck looking brand new
A small park with a tree sculpture
Local reptilian friends
All of these birds were new to my list
When nature gives you sticks, make a stick teepee
A seaside building looking worse for wear
Big church
Forte la Carnale is very close to shore and was built in 1563 to protect the mouth of the river Irno
Boats to spare
A very imposing structure
Bees collecting pollen and noses collecting sweet smells
A large municipal pool
Lots of indoor pools
A roller blade track, I wonder if they have a roller derby?
Lemons, a local specialty
Nice mosaic
Chef de Plastic
Looking out to the ferries
So much of the flotsam is bamboo
We came upon a pair of young men cleaning up the shore line
They are off in the distance
We say ten or twelve large bags of trash that they collected
Very slippery ground
Huge blocks of stone
Two birds and what appears to be a cat but is a shoe
Nice tile murals
All along the promenade
Winterized palm trees
Amalfi coast highlights
A cave system
Anyone loose an anchor?
This man photobombed my picture
What does Mr. Chaplin have to say? Apparently is is a croquette-o-meter
Very large mural
Modern art?
Yes we will buy some fresh veggies
A tale of two lemons
More Chaplin, I wonder why
A very small car
Weird baloney
A smart way to package wine
Glass blocks that allow light into the lower parts of the buildings
Neglected for sure
Our three mile walk. I did not start the app at the beginning
