Sardinia
Sardinia, Sardegna in Italian, is one of the 20 Italian regions and after Sicily the major island in the Mediterranean Sea (16,000 square miles). The distance from north to south amounts 180 miles, from east to west 97 miles. The coast line measures 1,233 miles. With 1,6 million inhabitants Sardinia has always been thinly populated and not discovered by mass tourism. The most important tip: forget Italy and the Italian landscape. The language might be the same, each other comparison goes wrong.

Nature
Sardinia is an island of sharp contrasts; savage and solitary mountain ridges like the Gennargentu and the Monte Ortobene, sloping hillocks with macchia (the delicious fragrances from wild herbs such as thyme, mirte, finnochio, sage and many others), forests with cork oaks, the enormous white limestone ledges of the Monte Albo, all this set the scenery of Sardinia. Many areas are already commented as national park. Not only to guarantee the landscape, but also to be able to give many particular animals a save place to live their lives. The coastlines of Sardinia are fabulous. Famous are the breathtaking shelves of the Grotto di Nettuno at Alghero and on the east coast the limestone rocks of the Cala Luna. There are many picturesque bays, white sandy beaches and everywhere the azure bleu crystal-clear sea.

Climate
The winters are gentle (average day temperature in January of 14º C). The summers are warm and dry (average day temperature of 30º C). Spring and autumn are extremely good periods to discover the island and the friendly inhabitants. While in summer everything colours brown under the scorched sun, the autumn recovers nature with spring green colours as if the summer never had existed.

Weather forecast Sardinia

(Water) sports
Along the coast of Sardinia their can be snorkelled in abundance. There are plenty facilities available for sport divers and sport fisherman. Also the windsurfers come well to their appetites: actually, the coast of La Caletta seems to be made for windsurfing because there is almost every day wind in abundance. The bay in which La Caletta is found has a large broad sandy beach. You can walk fairly far before the sea becomes deep. For hikers there are not that many possibilities unless they are experienced. At this time there are less walking tracks available. We have heard that in future tracks will be set out.

Language, eating and drinking
The Sardi (people of Sardinia) speak an own Romanesque language. Although Sarda is the domestic language, the majority of the population speaks Italian. In the restaurants the Sardinian kitchen corresponds strongly with the Italian kitchen. For typical Sardinian food we recommend dinner at an “agriturismo”. This is a farm with a restaurant that only may provide their guests with food products which have been grown on own ground or have been bred in own management. Sardinia has some good to very good wines such as the white Vermentino, the red Cannonau and the Moscato di Cagliari (tasty dessert wine).

In General
Tourist offices supply good road maps of Sardinia for free. Tourist Information is in our apartment available. La Caletta has its own tourist office (called pro Loco), which is only opened in the summertime. Between 01.00 and 04.00 PM it is siesta time. During this period all shops (and also the petrol stations) are closed. Shops are opened from 09.00 - 01.00 AM and from 04.00 - 08.00 PM. There are no toll ways on Sardinia. The roads are most times asphalted, mostly two lanes and frequently beautiful sinuous. Also there are the so-called “strada bianca”, which are ways of sand or macadam.