Tortoreto Lido - changes on our street

This past weekend we moved down to the village where we go to the beach, Tortoreto Lido.
Quiet little village in the winter, explodes with beach goers in the summer. Weather has been mixed. On the weekend it was heavy rain, lighting, winds. Monday was good and we went to the beach. Today looks like it's going to be rain.

There are two pictures on this post. The first one is the little street outside our kitchen. This is traditionally what it looks like, small houses, quiet, narrow, little cars parked here and there. The second picture is the new monstrosity that's being built across the street in a formerly empty lot. It's going to completely block our view of the sun.

Oh well, that's progress.

First few days of Summer 2014

I got here in what has to be the earliest time of arrival I can remember ... landed in Napoli just before noon localtime.  No problems with connections, it's all smooth, no lost luggage, but it still tired me out.  No chance for sleep on the plane with such an early flight from the US to Europe, I was in Paris my 6am Paris time/midnight back in Ohio.

First day of course spent doing nothing and recovering.

Second day we take a Sunday drive out to the country to visit my mom's favorite cousin.
Nice 4 hour lunch under the trees in the hills somewhere outside Avellino.
I've gotten so lazy now that I didn't even have my phone with me during lunch, so the only pictures I got were these two of some of the desserts.

The first one is a store bough assortment of mignon desserts.

This one is a home made baba (on the bottom) with some store bought mini-baba's on top to fill in the hole in the center of the home made baba.

Today is actually day three.  Day two was hot, day three started out with heavy rains, winds, and has been much cooler.  Forecast for next couple days calls for more of the same.

The real vacation doesn't start until next week, I'm still technically working remotely this week, so don't expect a lot more until later in the month.