Well...what a long break from blogdom. I missed my blog friends but when the nearest Internet Cafe is a 40 minute drive away, along a coastal road and down a windy forest road, and is in fact just a few old computers in the back of a small photo shop and no broadband, then we were only able to check our work emails and send a few work documents - and anyway I don't actually know my password - my home computer knows all that sort of thing!! Also if it's sunny outside and there's a harbour-side cafe to enjoy a cappuccino in and you're on holiday - well that beats blogging I'm afraid!
So... if I'm still blogging in a a few years' time you'll all be groaning and saying, oh no not Elba again, oh no not another sea shot, sunset, etc, but at the moment I hope my photos will bore you less than they do my old friends and family, who don't want to hear any more about it!
So here are a few of this year's photos. These photos make it look rather cold and stormy. But it was very hot, and we only had a few Mediteranean-style storms. But I'll tell you about our journey back in another blog. The photos are:
1 the bay we spend all our time in
2 children defying the waves
3 the road down to the beach
4 freshly caught fish - we know the fisherman - called 'big eye' in Italian- guess why?! They were delicious, grilled, if a bit bony.
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hobbyhorse
- 2009-09-22 @ 18:06:14
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banana
Pro - http://poetry4fun.blog.co.uk
- 2009-09-22 @ 19:09:10
Oh it looks just like home here on Kefalonia
I think God must have made the mediterranean area last when he put the world together.
In my opinion it is definitely the bit he got absolutely right.
I was saying to my husband the other day as we sat on the edge of a beach gazing (our most common pastime these days) that if I die and go to heaven and it isn't like Kefalonia I will be most displeased. Looks like Elba is the same calibre.
Those big eyes look lovely - we haven't sussed catching fish yet - but it is on my to-do list.
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hobbyhorse
- 2009-09-22 @ 19:19:38
Kefalonia sounds just my sort of place though. But although we don't live on Elba, we know everyone in our little corner really well. The restaurant owners (there is only one!) were saying that we must have known each other more than twenty years! For them that is 'man and boy'! Not for us unfortunately! It's great as we speak Italian too, of course. xxxx
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catsInVienna
- 2009-09-22 @ 18:40:01
Hello and welcome back,
lovely pictures. Elba must be a lovely place. I have not ever been there, only in Sicily. The waves are great! I hope you have no too much stress the next week. BTW: I visited an Art Brut Japanese exibition today, nice pictures. -
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Welcome back.....lovely pictures....one can almost 'smell' the air....Delicious fish....Hope you are rested!
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QueeneMab
- 2009-09-22 @ 20:14:12
Dramatic waves
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brokendownangel
Pro - 2009-09-22 @ 20:18:12
Good to see you back, the pictures don't do a sunny day any justice but the place does look lovely, glad you had a great time. The fish looks a bit scary x
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SeasideMan
Pro - 2009-09-22 @ 20:35:37
Sounds (and looks) idyllic!
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Miza-T
- 2009-09-30 @ 16:06:22
Amazing!
I wouldn't even think of blogging
Love the pic with the waves, would make a great painting!
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hobbyhorse
- 2009-10-01 @ 14:01:28
I took the photos using a sort of fast shutter option where you get lots of photos. It really wasn't very safe for the kids there actually, they are standing on a sort of cement jetty quite close to the edge with quite big and unpredictable waves coming in, but their parents were letting them do it - and it looked so joyous. However, I wouldn't have liked to have ended up being the one taking the footage of them being swept out to sea!
Feel free to use the photo and if you want other in the same sequence, I can post them up. xxx -
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Just wanted to point out that the fish is called big eye, not the fisherman!!