Keith and I went to Aldi this morning to get a few bits we needed...it's just like being at home! Just before we left the maintenance man arrived to fix the door so we left Sophie and Mike at the villa.
We did our shopping - almost a whole trolley came to just $60 - and headed back to the villa to find the maintenance man had sorted out the door and left.
As soon as all the shopping was put away we jumped into the pool and cooled off. The skies tend to be full of innocuous little white fluffy clouds in the morning but these tend to gang up in the afternoon to form the towering storm clouds that unleash their fury every evening! We lazed about in the sunshine and then the pool man arrived. He was originally from Manchester and has been in Naples for 27 years so we had a good chat. He said that us Brits are the only ones in town at the moment, but we haven't heard any other English voices for ages! He added some chlorine to our pool and advised us to stay out of it for an hour...the longest hour of the holiday! Keith and I sat and sunbathed and the sweat just poured off us!
Keith made a lovely lunch today of Caesar salad, bread and cheese and Sophie and I washed it down with a glass of the Romanian Pinot Grigio, which I really liked. I don't think I'll be taking any wine home this year though. There's a good choice of Californian reds at home and Sophie and I have fallen in love with New Zealand Pinot Grigios!
By 4pm we had all had enough of the sun and I tuned into the Weather Channel to see how a couple of potential storms were doing out in the Atlantic. One of them is causing a bit of worry and may coincide with the other momentous event next week, the Solar Eclipse. This is due to happen here on Monday and I learned that you can't get any eclipse glasses for love nor money! Tropical Storm Harvey is raging at the moment but is much further south, in the Caribbean, and they think it may develop into a hurricane when it approaches Central America.
However, we had an almighty storm of our own tonight. Keith, Sophie and I went to get a Papa John's pizza at about 7pm and the thunder and lightening started as we waited for our pizzas to be cooked. The sky went very dark and by the time we got back to our villa half an hour later, it had started in earnest.
After we'd eaten we went outside and the whole sky was constantly being lit up by lightening. It was spectacular to watch! The storm lasted more than two hours and we saw fork lightening develop as well - it was horizontal and stretched right across the sky. I went outside the front of the house to watch and with the palm trees illuminated with the lightening I really felt very, very far from home!
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