Well..it's carnival time here too!
ok, our small town is nothing compared to Rio,
but we try our best.
On sunday we took the kids to see the parade.
This year , to be honest it wasn't as good as last year,
but the kids enjoyed..
so , as long as they have fun.....!!!
Here are some pictures.
My first prize was won by the dung beetles!!
absolutely the best!
followed by the small Adams/scary car
with a couple of funny characters as
cousin Itt (small photos hairy white),
and the boogie man .
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That looks like it was a fun day for everyone!
RispondiEliminaSei andata a Tempio o è a Cannigione? Sembra che si siano impegnati...Bello quello con la ghianda!!!
RispondiElimina@Ulrile, yes, a fun day indeed!
RispondiElimina@Silvia..macchè semplicemente ad Arzachena!
looks like fun!
RispondiEliminavery interesting!
RispondiEliminadidn't know you had rainy days, too!
Right now we just have a lot of snow...
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Finding One’s Self on a Romantic Island That Time Forgot
Sardinian Silver
KINGSTON, ONTARIO – How many young people have dreamt of self and sexual discovery in a far off, exotic place? Arthur Fraser, the main character of Sardinian Silver (published by iUniverse) by A. Colin Wright, not only dreamt of it, he realized his dream. Recruited to represent a travel firm from his homeland of Great Britain, Arthur arrives in the resort town of Alghero on the Island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea and is instantly bewitched. Based on his own time on Sardinia, Wright’s captivating and oftentimes hilarious novel follows the exploits of a young man trying to find love while assimilating to an archaically orthodox society.
Sardinian Silver opens with Arthur sailing across the Tyrrhenian Sea towards his new home. On his journey to Sardinia, Arthur meets a native Sardinian named Gavino. Eager to make a new friend, let alone a British one, Gavino strikes up a conversation with Arthur and quickly offers to show Arthur his island. Gavino is the first in a cavalcade of characters, serious, humorous and tragic, that help make Sardinian Silver the engaging recollection that it is.
Once settled into the Sardinian resort at which he is working, Arthur sets out on achieving the one thing he wants most; finding a Sardinian girlfriend. He knows that this will not be easy, as Gavino has already warned him. Sardinia in the 1960s was still very culturally undeveloped. Sardinia’s residents viewed mainland Italians and continentals (the British counted among them) as immoral and contaminated by modern society. Still, this does not dissuade Arthur from his task.
It was ten past nine. Quickly the girls had gone.
Parties like this were so promising, yet so empty. I recall another one, with Gavino and some of Marcella’s friends, where one girl enjoyed a few hidden caresses while we clutched together publicly, but reacted scornfully when I attempted to get her outside alone, and the others were quite shocked. Except for Marcella, who made fun of me. Hug and hold tightly in a dance, but be satisfied with this brief, despairing feel of another body, for it’s all you’re going to get unless you pay a prostitute for more: southern Italy in a nutshell. Yet Sardinia was a land of promise, which I loved even if it remained unfulfilled.
In the tradition of Brideshead Revisited and The Lost Girl, Sardinian Silver is a charming and witty novel of growth, loss and realization that is sure to delight even the most critical reader.
A. Colin Wright was born and raised in the county of Essex, England. After serving as a linguist in the British Royal Air Force, Wright attended Cambridge University where he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees. In 1964, he was appointed a professor of Russian at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He remained at Queen’s until his retirement in 1999 and still resides there today. Dr. Wright is married and has two grown sons. See also www.sardiniansilver.com, www.acolinwright.ca and www.authorsden.com/acolinwright
Available from www.iuniverse.com ISBN Hardcover 978-0-595-71601-2 Also at http://www.amazon.com, and other sites Paper 978-0-595-48100-2
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