Good morning! We made pancakes today and had Vermont Maple Syrup with them that I brought from my trip up there. Kyle had never tasted real Vermont syrup and fell in love with it!
We drove out to support site today to go to the market out there to buy groceries. We were going to stop at Sean's before hand just to say hi, buy our groceries and come back home. But once we got to Sean's he started up the BBQ and told us to stay for dinner. Also we couldn't go to the commissary because my pass to get on base wouldn't let me into the commissary too so we decided to just wait. But on the way out to support site I photographed some of the Italian flavor to give you a glimpse of what real Italy is like.
Hanging your clothes and sheets off your balcony is what all Italian's do. Most of them don't own dryers and use their balconies to dry all their clothes.
Surprisingly they do own trashcans in Italy. They are regulated though and you can only dump trash at certain times which makes it more convenient for most Italians to just burn their trash in the streets instead.
Hard to tell here but this car is half on the sidewalk half on the street. Most Italians park like this, or wherever they feel like pretty much.
Tiny cars everywhere!
Italians also make up their own rules on the streets, this guy in the blue car is driving in the middle of 2 lanes right now. Also the car on the far left is parked on the sidewalk.
Lots of tunnels, which are a good and bad thing. When they get backed up is when its bad because theres no ventilation in the tunnels so they have huge fans in there to keep the air moving.
Italian signs are kinda interesting and not really helpful at times. At busy areas signs are all over everywhere like this intersection, but where theres less traffic you don't have any.
Cherry trees are in bloom! Among many other fruit trees out here and nut trees too. They don't just have olive trees in Italy!
Agip is one of the chain gas stations. This one is off the freeway but like most of the gas stations off the freeway you can only get to it by freeway. Its like a rest stop.
This isn't unusual for a name to have over 10 letters in it, Circumvallazione has 16!
This guy is true definition for Italian Flavor! White boy style.
Italian billboards! Me and my design eye, I can't stand any of their advertising. They are also usually just clustered together like this or on top of each other.
Vacant buildings are't unusual either. A lot of the time the Mob has come in and taken over the place.
Umbrella Trees! Also known as Stone Pine trees, these are all over Italy and I think they are so interesting!
Sometimes the Mob takes over before building even gets too far underway.
More development that was probably stopped by the Mob
Look I have a new blue tattoo!! So when we showed up to Sean's house, his son Joe (2) was covered in red and blue marker. Apparently he decided he wanted to draw all over his arms and legs with markers. It was pretty cute but because he was covered in marker when he sat on me then I became covered in marker. I had blue on my arms and legs too, just like little Joe!
So these are some of the things I do all day while I'm home alone when Kyle has to work. I usually go down to the corner cafe then go over to the markets and get what I need for dinner that night or any other random things we seem to need. If its not raining I'll go walk around the neighborhood and get lost and find my way back. This all needs to be done before 1 or 2 because thats nap time over here for everyone. All the shops close up for a few hours and go have huge lunches then sleep till its time to open up again for the evening. So today I built a table during those hours! Kyle bought this table from the NEX (the Navy Exchange on base) because the table he had barely fit the two of us, let alone a crowd if he ever had one. Plus his kitchen is big enough and he had gift cards so might as well! They delivered it around 9am and just put it in the kitchen then left. So it was up to us to build it. Well that was a bigger task than I expected when I started opening up the box.
It was such an early morning this morning! I'm used to waking up early every day but usually I get to go back to sleep after Kyle leaves for work. This time we both had to get up and leave because we were going to Capri! The second we saw who our tour guide was I got so excited because it was Aldo from Pompeii!! We knew then that it would be a good trip and well worth it! First we took a bus down to the docks where Aldo worked it out for us to board an hour early so we got an extra hour on the island. Nice! We got on a catamaran called SNAV that reminded me of the Catalina Flyer. The boat ride to Capri from the bay of Naples is about 50 minutes, I think. I actually wouldn't know because I slept the whole ride over. Capri seriously is the Catalina of Italy. It's really pretty and they have a main tourist harbor where everything is then residential on the back side. We went on this tour once we got there that took us to the Blue Grotto. You took this motorboat o
Today we went wine tasting with Aldo today in Avellino! The tour started at base and headed up the mountains towards Avellino. They made a stop at a rest area for café! My favorite! It didn't take too long to get up to the winery. The name was Colli Di Castelfranci. Castlefranci is a small village in the heart of Irpinia which is in the Province of Avellino. This logo on the wall their son created. He seemed pretty young and was the one who has started to take over production of the place. Grandpa and dad still lived there and worked but the son did most of it. The winery is very organic and they try to use all natural everything when they can. They even reuse willow tree branches and things like that for ways to hold up the vines or to tie things together instead of using plastic or metal objects. Aldo is holding some dried branches that when you soak in water they become soft enough to tie into a knot. Inside is where they store the wine in huge
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