To Sardinia and Beyond: Beach Lyfe

And the vacation continues! Crazy to think only 9 more days until the trip is over. Thursday in the morning we visited a door-to-door waste collection facility. We learned about how they have implemented separate stream garbage collection programs in different cities. It was great to have a question and answer session afterwards. We discussed how some neighborhoods had difficulty getting used to the new system and how the facility handled these issues. Afterwards, we enjoyed a sandwich lunch at the facility.

Once we got through school on Friday we had the weekend entirely off! Saturday morning I went souvenir shopping, and in the afternoon hit the beach. The Poetto is Cagliari's beach. You can walk at least 200 yards in the turquoise water before it gets too deep. There are no waves (which is a pro and a con) and gloriously soft sand. It's next to a mountain range and across from downtown Cagliari. Basically, it's heaven. It's fairly easy to take the bus from our dorm to the beach. Unfortunately, the way back is horrible. Unless you're leaving at an off time from the beach every bus is slam packed. It is nearly impossible to squeeze a group of 15 people on one packed bus! We have definitely been spoiled on this trip with private buses to every technical visit.

Today was the Poetto again! This time we rented out some paddle boards and paddled out around the beach.

Paddle board wars!