Sardiniaisland

10/07/2019

Young Yelkouan Shearwaters leaving their nests in dark nights could be attracted by artificial lights. Help us to save them!

I giovani di berta minore che si involano in queste notti, possono essere attratti a terra dall'illuminazione artificiale. Se trovi una berta minore a terra, segui le istruzioni della locandina e contattaci. Aiutaci a salvarle!

06/05/2018

My first memory about a festival at a country church is really faraway. I was a little girl when I first attended a traditional celebration held in one. I think it was Madonna del Rimedio, in September, near Orosei. Here the link to an old video Madonna del Rimedio festival . I vividly remember a little white church, in a bright, dazzling light and around it, other simple buildings, named "cumbessias", where pilgrims coming from towns close by, were hosted during the days preceding the procession. [ 1,337 more word ]
http://sardiniaisland.blog/2018/05/06/country-churches/

Our little country churches and their festivals.

31/03/2018

Easter is approaching fast and we haven't decided yet what to during these few free days. In Italy the Easter holidays are strongly felt and a lot of religious celebrations are held; in Sardinia too, several towns have renowned processions and someone of them are really worth it, like the ones in Alghero and Castelsardo. If you want to learn more have a look to [ 253 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2018/03/31/easter-days/

Our Easter habits

25/03/2018

These days I'm getting up earlier than usual and I love to have a look at the backyard. Little birds feel the incoming spring and sing their songs with powerful voices, compared to their little sizes. Mating season is arriving and the need to establish a territory and attract a partner is pressing. The sun rises earlier too and this light in the morning seems to be a promise of better days. [ 466 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2018/03/25/changing-seasons/

I like the variety of the four season.

22/03/2018

Have a good World water day, think about the importance of this resource for our life and learn to save water everyday! Learn more on World water day 2018

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2018/03/22/world-water-day-2018/

Have a good World water day, think about the importance of this resource for our life and learn to save water everyday! Learn more on World water day 2018

11/03/2018

The landscape of our childhood is dominated by granite. It's on granite that we furthered developped our climbing skills, in the long summer afternoons. When the sun was not too hot and the evening was approaching, we ran endlessly up and down the big boulders in the countryside. This granite was smoothed by time but still coarse, with its colourful grains, white, pink and translucent, that we touched with our fingers, and which our poor knees were at the mercy of a number of times. [ 1,347 more word ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2018/03/11/discovering-sardinia-hiking-in-monte-santu/

A surprising hike with a great feeling of wilderness just outside Olbia.

25/02/2018

Discover with us the magic of winter in Sardinia. Winter in Sardinia.

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2018/02/25/winter-in-sardinia/

Discover with us the magic of winter in Sardinia. Winter in Sardinia.  

26/11/2017

When I began to be interested in nature I was in my teens: there was a Science teacher who was trying to organize a group of students. She suggested bird watching to us and we began with some wetlands near Olbia. She opened up a whole new world to me ! We started wandering looking for ponds and salt lagoons. Initially we stayed in Olbia and the surroundings areas but soon we started searching for birds further afield and I began discovering Sardinia. [ 865 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/11/26/bird-watching/

We enjoy the pleasure of admiring birds perfection a few minutes walk from home.

16/09/2017

September has finally arrived. After long and repeated heat waves and a dry season that hasn't finished yet. Our Mediterranean forest is suffering the drought and I don't think I've ever seen the bushes and the trees so dry with their leaves rustling if moved by the wind. But, some days ago, we heard the sound of the rain for the first time in months. [ 976 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/09/16/september-is-cabudanni/

September has arrived. It’s the right month to be in Sardinia. Read more.

02/08/2017

Earth Overshoot Day is the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate over the entire year. This year Earth Overshoot Day falls on August 2, the earliest date yet. Join the challenge to move the date back, as it was in the past, growing awareness and choosing simple habits that you can change. Read more on [ 125 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/08/02/earth-overshoot-day/

“Passavamo sulla terra leggeri”

29/07/2017

During summer, on our little Mediterranean island, we’re usually busy with exhausting and long discussions about tourists, tourism and identity. Sardinia, by European standards, is quite uninhabited, with only one million six hundred thousand citizens, concentrated mainly in the south, around the city of Cagliari, or along the coast. The interior is characterized by extended areas with no towns or villages or with very little ones, where life could be quite similar to that of my grandparents. [ 1,320 more word ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/07/29/our-identity/

Sardinia and its identity

08/07/2017

Usually little Sardinian villages have a main street that is named something like Via Nazionale or Via Roma or Via Libertà. When you arrive in Armungia (482 inhabitants), a little village near Muravera in south east Sardinia, the main street is Via Emilio Lussu. This writer, politician, soldier and fighter was born here in 1890 and his story and that of his wife, Joyce, are still alive in this tiny community. [ 497 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/07/08/a-coffee-in-armungia/

And, if you should ever find yourself passing by, enjoy a coffee in Armungia, experiencing their hospitality and having a look at their work. It’s worth it. Read more.

17/06/2017

Some years ago, while I was a member of the local council, an engineer coming from Rome told me that Olbia was an ugly town in a magnificent location. I wasn't sure I was of the same mindset about this subject, because I've grown up here and it's difficult for me to be so impartial. But in some way this sentence still lingers in my mind. [ 748 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/06/17/a-hidden-treasure/

Olbia: there’s more than first meets the eye.

11/06/2017

The islands off Sardinian mainland are beautiful and different one from each other. And they’ve amazing stories to tell. Stories going back to ancient times or taking place in the 1900th. Among the ones I’ve heard, I find the recent story of Molara really fascinating. Molara is a granitic island off the north-east cost of Sardinia. It’s private and owned by a local family living on the Sardinian mainland. [ 1,183 more word ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/06/11/molara-a-little-paradise/

Molara its beauty and its recent history. Read more

04/06/2017

Years ago now and then we went out for two day hikes. We never slept in tent, trusting the Sardinian mild weather and our youth. We slept in the open air, or during winter in an old cuile. These are old shepherd shelters, scattered in the central mountains of the island. They were the places where men once lived, taking care of their grazing animals. [ 315 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/06/04/su-cuile/

Years ago now and then we went out for two day hikes. We never slept in tent, trusting the Sardinian mild weather and our youth. We slept in the open air, or during winter in an old cuile. These ar…

02/06/2017

I want to share with you some pics taken during a beach clean up on Tavolara island, two weekends ago. This is only some of the waste found, a full boat, but I have saved them as an example of tiny plastic garbage anyone can find at sea. The kind of waste that is a real threat for marine wildlife. [ 214 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/06/02/litter-collection-here-there-is-the-second-catch/

Beach clean up on Tavolara island. We found mermaids’s tears too. Read more.

28/05/2017

This year the weather is particularly dry and warm. And so we are at the end of May but it seems to be one month ahead. I’m not one who loves summer very much and aboveall I don’t like to have the same weather all year round. I prefer the changing atmospheres that the shifts in season set aside for us. [ 248 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/05/28/summer-is-arriving/

This early summer allows us to go to the sea when the beaches are still empty. Some of our preferred places. Read more.

22/05/2017

Among all the places we love, a very special one for us is Gorropu. It’s the first hike I did with Massimo, more or less thirty years ago! I remember I had been impressed by this canyon, with its big white boulders and by my guide, too. At that time it was quite unusual to go hiking or trekking in Sardinia and a lot of places now quite popular were almost deserted. [ 516 more words ]

http://sardiniaisland.blog/2017/05/22/gorropu-our-beloved-canyon/

Among all places we love, a very special one for us is Gorropu. Read more.