Sardinia.... the beautiful beaches, the interesting characters

There are no amount of pictures I can take that will capture the beauty in this place. The only hope I have is write the memories down before they escape my mind. A mind so lost in translation it spills over with new found knowledge of a culture unknown to my own.

Daniel and I began our next chapter of the journey working on a farm through an organization called Wwoof (World Wide Organic Farming Organization.)We ended up on a farm just 50km east of Cagliari in Sardinia. The Italian island of Sradinia is home to approimately 1.6 million people. The farm owner Enrico, who hosted us for our three week stay near the little villiage of San Priamo was born and raised in Sardinia and so came full of the best local knowledge available. Enrico has a group of vacation villas he built on the farm and he let us stay in one of the houses that was not being rented, and brought us groceries in exchange for our work on the farm.

Of course the formentioned is only what is owed to you when you wwoof but we were far luckier than just any ordinary wwoofers in this case. Our host not only gave us a beautiful home to live in, he took us to the beach when ever he could if we could not bike, bought us the best local Sardinian wine, cheeses, brought us hiking or into the city on weekends, and showed us the best historical sights Sardinia had to offer. We spent quite a bit of time with him, and will be forever greatful to his warm extra generosity towards us.

Wwoofing work on the farm included many odd jobs such as:

Pruning olive trees, clearing trees on the land for firewood, clearing feilds of rocks, weeding, trimming vines, picking fruit, olives, veggies, and ocassionally house hold chores like mending furniture, and painting.

Work would go anywhere from two hours to four and a half hours max per day for four days a week usually. After work we would make lunch and go to the beach, hike, explore or relax.