Adjusting the routine

Breakfast at the pasticceria...coffee and cornettos marmellata (marmalade or jam filled croissants)

Trip to the deli for ready-made salads of grilled broccoli, beans, zucchini ribbons, some formaggio, cold meats for Signore Brent, two crispy fresh bread rolls.

A wander through the streets, taking in the colours (even if just the washing hanging from the balconies!).

To the beach!

Home for a shower and relax. Many of the shops, restaurants and cafés close about 1pm and re-open around 4.30pm. Many don't actually close their doors, but instead pull chairs or plants across the entrance, and perhaps a makeshift board, just to indicate that they're closed. The noise of the town gradually dies, except for occasional motor scooters and motor boats...and then it's buonasera and the evening begins! Although, we did come across a four-legged fellow who was sleeping in the shade of the afternoon on the warm cobblestones and seemed to be asking, "Siesta, it's over??"

Nicole let us know her favourite shop for fruit and vegetables...it opens daily at 5pm! So we pick up plums, peaches, grapes, grapefruit for a fruit salad dinner...a bottle of wine, some Messina birra, and water.

A stop at a discovered pasticceria for cannoli (warm from the oven), stuffed with ricotta and sprinkled with pistachios...and a wander home.

Ahh, yes...what better way to settle in!