A Day on the Beach!

The weather forecast has been calling for bad weather all week.  Recently there has been a major cold front going through Italy.  This past weekend it was cold all over Italia--I guess the heat is hovering over the east coast in the states.  I left Ravenna with the family on Sunday wearing jeans and a sweater.  I also wore a sweater and jeans on Monday because it was so chilly with the wind blowing, and there was no sun to be seen.  It was so sad :(  It is my last week in Potenza Picena, and all I really want is to see the sun!

Lucky for me, today we had sunshine!  We were able to head out to the beach.  The beaches in Italia are much different than those in America.  In Italia, you belong to a beach club, and you have a plot on the beach.  You are given a numbered umbrella for the season, and you have to pay for it for the season.  Depending on where you are in Italia, you could have a stony or sandy beach.  Porto Sant' Elpidio is the beach that my host family goes to.  It is about a 20 minute drive from there home.  Instead of going to the beach in Potenza Picena, they go to Porto Sant Elpidio because their family and friends go to that beach.

Well, we got out to the beach.  It was sunny and breezy!  It was too chilly to get in the water, but I was able to enjoy the view of the beach and the Adriatic Sea.

Usually when we head out to the beach, we only spend an hour or two.   There is just so much to do all the time!  Today we arrived to the beach around 10:30 and stayed until 3.  There maybe no more time at the beach this week because they are calling for cloudy rainy days :(  I laid on the beach listening to my iPod.  The only thing that is not fun was the fact that people try to sell you things.  It isn't like they are sitting in one place and talking to you as you go by.  No--they walk up to you while you are lying on your beach towel, listening to music or reading your book.  They hover over you until you acknowledge them being there.  Sometimes they will just walk away, but other times you have to say NO!  The people who are doing this are immigrants from Libya and other places.  They need to make money, so why not badger people on the beach to buy things!  Other than the sellers interrupting the peaceful time you spend on the beach, it is quite pleasant.