Sunday, September 27, 2009

Night on the Water

... Staring into a starry night's sky, drinking a 5 euro bottle of wine... waves crash into the beach just down the cliff from where you sit...
... imagine stress relief like the passage of the moon slowly sinking to the horizon...
... sleeping to the cool breeze blowing in from the water...
... a complimentary buffet breakfast and no rush to check out...
... a book I've been dying to read...
... sitting on a private beach... with a warm sun... and a free morning...
... these are the kinds of things that an unheard place like Sermione has to offer...

... It sits on a peninsula... maybe a mile north to south but only 100 steps wide... A little Venice-like city is jam packed between these two shores... and you drive through the whole thing to get to our hotel... a drawbridge the only way in... through a medieval castle set up to divide the strip of land in two... on tourist lined sidewalks... past the greatest gelato spread we've ever seen in the whole entirety of italy... right to the doorstep of an ancient Roman Villa... our hotel... Ideel.

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