Sardinia 2011, day 5, Easter Sunday

Breakfast: toast and coffee. I had hunger after that. I walked to the church, a small evangelical church that I could find in this town. Oggi è Pasqua per tutte le confessioni, so started the service. I understood a bit. Also to my surprise, one song was a Finnish traditional which I have never heard, and one was English. Afte rthe servide, one woman came to ask where I am from nad tried to speak Russian with me after hearing that I am from Estonia. Shocked as I was, of course I did not answer in Russian, the foreign languages I do not speak that often or well are all hidden in some remote place of my brain.

Planning to walk to the town centre, reading the map outside church, when one man came to speak.
"Buona Pasqua"
"Buona Pasqua"
"Sei olandese?"
"No sono Estone, sono a Cagliari per vacanza"
"Cosa fai?"
"Sono studentessa"
"Cosa studia?"
"Biologia"

I started to make my way to the place where I had agreed to meed K, without a phone (or phone charger) we had agreed on an exact time to meet). Suddenly I saw the aster procession and this made me wonder, why are they carrying Mary, dressed in black, on Easter Sunday. I followed it with the crowd and soon we were on the Via Roma, by the sea. Suddenly, they stopped, changed black clothes to white. At the same time, there was another procession coming from opposite direction, carrying Jesus. Now the two crowds joined, carrying both statues of Mary and Jesus in front. People were throuwing flower petals from balconies.

I had 2 h to walk. At 2 we met with K.


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K had to find hostel to stay for 1 night, because the current place only had double rooms, she did not want to pay for 2 when she is staying alone. In the tourist information, we were told that there is a hostel that has single places in big rooms, however they are having an irish music festival and the hostel is full of bagpipe and flute players. It was, but she took a room there.

We also asked about flamingoes and were told in this weather, we cannot go there because buses don't run this Sunday and it is raining and too far to walk. Nevertheless, we got the location shown on the map and decided to walk there. In the nature park, a runner told us that in this weather flaminges keep to the far end, a place more hidden from the wind. He had not seen any in the main park that day. He gave us two roads to go to the end.

We selected one, but of course, after several kilometres of walking , we saw flaminges form the distance, but we were on the wrong side of the fence. There was another part of the saline, but this was also separated with a fence. Coming back, I trusted K rather than my GPS, which at some points was telling me that we were going wrong direction (yesterday's lesson, do not relay entirery on electonic things)

Finally, after arriving in a place where we had been already, I showed what triangles we had walked (Pythagoras, or favourite!).

By the time we arrived in hostel, it was 9.45, we had walked 25km in 5 hours (and average speed was over 5, most often 6, but there were stops to see the map or try to see what is other side of the fence).

31.5 is the total for this day, in town where we planned not much walking, quite good.

At home we cooked again, went to pay for the hostel and ask if I may make my own breakfast (I am able to make toast and coffee!) so that I could have it before 7, for example 6.30. Yes. She had a cat.