After a day of classes on Friday we all woke up early
Saturday morning to travel a little ways up the western coast of Sardegna.
Along the way we stopped at a small mining area of Porto Flavia and explored a
cave used for the mining of zinc and lead. The mines opened in the early 1900’s
at that time laborers had to painstakingly dig the ore out using hand tools
until a more mechanized process involving conveyer belts and pneumatic tools
was introduced around the 1960’s.
Our next destination was to be Sa Perda Marcada, an
Agroturismo in Arbus. En-route we stopped at Temple d’Antas, a Roman Temple
made for the Sardinians over the remains of a Carthaginian one. The first stood
for 500 years before the Romans erected a new one around the time of Christ.
From there we had one last short trip through the steep
mountains to the Agrotourismo. We arrived just in time for a traditional dinner
(which lasted for 2 and a half hours). The next morning we took a walk around
the farm and had fresh eggs for breakfast. After being properly fed we started
our cooking lesson making Sardinian gnocchetti and a traditional Seadas comprised
of goat cheese and lemon zest for dessert.
On our way back to Cagliari we stopped at a public beach
surrounded by miles of rolling sand dunes. We soaked in the sun for a couple of
hours before returning to our school work.
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