THE FESTIVE SEASON - SICILY 2012
It will be our first Christmas away from England since 2002. However, there is no lack of a Christmas atmosphere here at the Camper site in Giardini on the east coast of Sicily. Many motorhomes are decorated with lights, poinsettia flowers, little trees, cyclamen plants etc. Some have resorted to grouping plants together thereby creating areas of colour in the Camper site.
Entrance to Camper Lagani
All lit up
Plants clustered together for effect - Fifi beyond
View from our dinette
I also find the festive season to be a time of reflection and of thinking back on the year gone by. The things you did and those you hope still to do. I seldom get bogged down on what I should have done and what I didn't do. Joan and I both live and plan for tomorrow and focus on what lies ahead, it is a case of 'how will we' and not 'why didn't we'.
For dreaming and planning ahead, for quantifying tomorrow and next week there is no place like the openness and endless horizons when walking on a beach. It also has a beauty all of its own and can be a wonderful place to sit and think - and sometimes just to sit.
Looking south towards Catania
Fisherman and cargo vessel
Cormorants
A moody sky
This Christmas promises to be different, because of different surroundings, yet familiar because everyone is celebrating it in the same time honoured way. There are about half a dozen nationalities here, most numerous Italians, then Germans, Brits, Belgian and Danish. Six of us Brits have booked a table at a local Sicilian restaurant for Christmas Day lunch - Sicilian style, however that pans out!
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