Last hill for my Sardinia trip, 🌲 Monte Pino (“Pine Mountain”) IS0/IS-120, 742 m. Evening walk up to the summit lookout from the ranger station. Extreme geomagnetic storm meant it took half an hour to get the required 4 radio contacts - all groundwave I suspect. #sardinia#hamr#hills#summitsontheair#sota
After yesterday's windy and rainy 20km #run, we continued today with another 20km in lower altitude and fairer weather. Just as beautiful, and just as fun. First a climb on a hillside covered with some kind of white orchids, then across wild pastures into a forest. Lot of free-roaming cows, at some points there were so many that they blocked the entire path and sides, so we had problems passing through (their sharp horns can be scary up close). #Sardinia is very pretty for #running or #hiking.
From a few days ago, when I was on my way to Cagliari to teach, I visited the extraordinary 4000-3650 BC site of Monte d’Accoddi, a Neolithic site in Northern Sardinia, completed to the present form around 3000 BC. Fabulously intriguing, and apparently the only ziggurat-style structure in the Western Mediterranean. This island has so many layers of history, in this case with a hint of Mesopotamia!#StandingStoneSunday#Sardegna#Sardinia#VisitingProfessor#unica
In the last few days, in between teaching & writing, I visited two more Nuraghic sites near Siddi dating from the Bronze Age, on a slight high plane above the fertile lowlands of Sardinia: one corridor-shaped (not the usual beehive dome style) at Sa Fogaia; one “giant’s tomb” called Sa Domu ‘e S’Orcu (i.e. house of the orcs!). Both practically empty in April & open to visitors to climb around and inside. Extraordinary places! #StandingStoneSunday#BronzeAge#History#Nuraghe#Sardinia#Sardegna
#Sardinia could reach 47°C this week. Much of southern Europe is experiencing extreme heat, and local records could be broken in Italy, Greece, and Turkey.
China provisionally recorded its highest temperature ever of 52.2°C in Xinjiang.
Italy has put 15 cities on red alert for high temperatures, as a severe heatwave continues across much of southern Europe.
The European Space Agency, whose satellites monitor land and sea temperatures, has warned that parts of Italy could experience the highest temperatures ever recorded on the continent.
Sicily and Sardinia could see temperatures climb as high as 49 degrees Celsius.
"Temperatures in #Italy could get close to breaking a #European record this week as a fierce #heatwave grips much of the continent.
An anticyclone – an area of high pressure – named Cerberus will cause temperatures to exceed 40C (104F) across much of the country by Wednesday, with the islands of #Sicily and #Sardinia predicted to bear the brunt at 47-48C."
"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything." --Ernest Hemingway
Sardinia is riddled with extraordinary archeological sites, from early Neolithic standing stones & structures to the Nuraghe towers, Punic & Roman cities & ruins. Today, for Standing Stone Sunday, I visited the amazing Nuraghe tower & village (1500-1200BC), with large stone chamber intact, and the baffling sacred well (from about 1000BC), aligned for solar equinox and greater lunistice, all at Santa Cristina near Paulilatino.
Fabulous nuraghe of Genna Maria near Villanovaforru in Sardinia that I visited a few weeks ago on my way to UniCa, blissfully free of crowds - or of anyone, really! The central tower was built sometime in the Middle Bronze Age (about 1350BC), with more recent additions of a village during the Iron Age. Super simple & clever glass panel showing what it might have looked like, that you can gaze through & photograph. Mesmerizing. #StandingStoneSunday#Sardegna#Sardinia#nuraghe#bronzeage