Gunnar Rundgren på resa / on tour

Today is Kolbjörns (my sons) birthday.

I am celebrating it in Torre di Porticciolo in Sardinia. I stay in a small Agroturismo which has 1000 meter to this fantastic beach and another 1000 meter in another direction to a more normal beach.






 I left Napoli the 5ht in the afternoon. I thought I could find a ferry to Sardinia in Napoli, but I couldn’t so I had to proceed to Rome. I took my bicycle on the train, but there were no trains until the afternoon, so I spend half a day in Napoli, cycling around, taking pictures and looking at people. Napoli was a great city, and I can think of spending more time there in the future and in its surroundings, Sorrento, Pompeii and Capri just to mention a few things. Obviously I also had a pizza. Napoli is the Pizza capital in the world. The pizza held average Swedish pizzeria standard…..


This lady was actually begging! You can't see her little basket...


The classic Napoli view. Don't know why Napoli is famous for how they hang our laundry in front of the house and not towards the backyard. Strange habit, but it looks nice, more homey and cosy.


In the end I couldn’t reach Civitavecchia, where the ferries to Sardinia are, that day but stayed over night in Rome. Next day went to the shore of the sea just some 25 km outside Rome. They are fortunate in having such beeches just outside the city. From there I proceeded to the ferry which left at ten at night the 6th. The ferry was eight hours and I regretted not having a cabin after a while. I spend a sleepless night on the boat trying to find some place to rest that wasn’t too noisy, too light or too cold. Arriving in Olbia, I had to decide what to do and ended up taking a train with my bike across the island to Sassari. In Sassari I tried to find internet in vain (this is a big town) and then proceeded by bike to Torre di Porticciolo. In total I made 88 km that day.



The trees are cork oaks. Träden är korkekar.


 Now the plan is to stay here over Easter, as I am a bit afraid that it will be busy – or closed – everywhere during the Easter days. The major drawback where I stay is that it is very far to shops or places to eat, like 1-1,5 hours by bicycle. Closest bigger town is Alghero – a rather famous tourist destination. I plan to go there now and see if I can find internet to post this and also to buy some food as I will have to do my own cooking. The good thing with that is that I probably can save some money by cooking myself, and I must say that money start to become an issue….. Another good thing is that I now plan to continue with my writing and being isolated is probably good for that purpose. All is well apart from that I start to feel my hay fever, a clear drawback of following the footsteps of spring. It makes me tired……