Turning Gallurese

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunset Horizon

This horizon speaks to me nightly with her stunning setting sun.

Tonight’s setting sun in Sardinia

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This is my response to the weekly photo challenge: horizon. Just click the link to learn more or to join in on the fun.

Do you prefer sunrise or sunset?

Travel Theme: A love stone from Sardinia

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“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
Michelangelo

Tinnari by Jennifer Avventura My Sardinian Life 2013 (15)

“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.” Henry Rollins

This is my response to the weekly travel theme: stone.

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I’ve re-published this photo as I’m up to my ears with a little side project. I’ll be back in full blogging force by early next week.

Until next time …

A dated door from Tonara, Sardinia

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.”  Jim Morrison

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One of my favourite pastimes is photographing old doors. Did I manage to capture the spirit of this ancient passageway?

Welcome to the new My Sardinian Life

Have you noticed anything different? Take a good look around? See it yet?

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Super Easy Bored Baked Apples

A few weeks ago my husband went to the farmland and returned home with a bushel full of local apples, and they have sat in a bowl, collecting dust, on my kitchen table ever since.

While at my tutoring session two days ago, the girls were baking apples and the smell was out of this world. They offered me one and I declined, knowing my rotting bowl of apples at home would suffice for this sweet project.   Continue reading

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

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The Weekly Photo Challenge asks for “The Hue of You,” and instead of using a photo of stunning Sardinia, I decided to Andy Warhol myself. My hue is on the top-right, I love greens and purples.

I just may print this and give it to Hub for Christmas. 😉

What is your hue?

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Travel Theme: The Brown Sardinian Hazelnut

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The hazelnut is just one of the many natural resources that flourish on the farms of Barbagia, in the heart of Sardinia. Every fall, locals busy themselves with the cultivation of the hazel tree, later turning their hazelnuts into delicious honey and creams. There are even entire festivals dedicated to the nuts of Sardinia!

This is my response to the weekly travel theme: brown.

Do you like the colour brown? I detest it but I love hazelnuts.

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A Snapshot from Tonara, Sardinia

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Sardinia vs Google Maps – who will come out on top?

For over a month, rebel islanders have changed the way Google maps shows the island of Sardinia, by modifying town names to read in Sardo, the official language of the island.

As of October 14. 2013 Google responded by modifying all town names, back to Italian.

Map Sardinia in Italian

Map Sardinia in Italian

Map Sardinia in Italian

Map Sardinia in Sardo

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