sardinia II: the blue crescent

Did you know places that look like this existed in Europe? I sure didn't. The Cala Gonone area is stunning. We barely made it onto a day-long boat tour (just five minutes before the scheduled take-off! though, being in sunny laid-back Cala Gonone, no one actually took off right at eleven a.m.) and were so glad we did -- it was the best weather and most perfect day of the trip. Since we didn't bring food along, we were forced to eat Italian chipwiches off a snack-bar boat, in between snorkeling and swimming in grottos and sunning ourselves on fabulous beaches. Oh, the hardship.