Today is May 17th and the difference from yesterday is bigger than one would think. Yesterday I added a new year to my life and today I immediately hit the door jackpot.
With my visiting parents we went to a new location, an old salt-works town Saline di Tarquinia. It is not fully abandoned, some houses are restored and all wear a distinctive shiny coat of glory days long gone but not forgotten.
I was instantly in love with the town. That was even before I found not two, not three, not five but seven green doors, in a row, and a building from 1925 that looks like a lighthouse. The history of this place must be fascinating but I have no time for it now.
One of two inhabitants who seemed related and a bit forlorn stole my heart. And in the winter they have flamingos too.
Second part with an abandoned factory (which I didn’t enter) will follow one of the coming Thursdays.
I’ll be busy for a while longer but I’m never far. Enjoy your weekend.
Well Happy Birthday my friend!
At first I was wondering if that row of green doors was perhaps some older version of those self-storage warehouse-for-rent places 😉
I also find it pretty cool that they put such a fancy-looking entrance and door on that round brick tower too.
I hope you enjoy your weekend with family and friends as well.
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Thank you, Norm. I have come to believe that Italians are stylish whether they want it or not. There is so much life in this town and also a fully other Italy: not nearly as well-off, or even pretending to be, as some other places. And then those glances from the locals as if to say: Are you lost? Are you sure you wish to be taking these photos? Why?
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Happy Birthday! I can see why you fell in love – great doors today!
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Thank you, Dan! 🙂 Here’s to great doors every day!
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I think you always hit the doors jackpot! Have a wonderful birthday MMM!
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Thank you, Jan. 🙂 Having a great week, hope you too.
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Some splendid doors there, the row of green doors being a highlight. Many happy (belated) returns.
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Thank you, Scooj! 🙂 Never too late for a happy return.
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First of all, Happy Belated Birthday! And what a great place you’ve discovered! The doors and buildings have so much character! All that surrounded by those beautiful “Italian Stone Pine Trees” we happen to have a lot of here in So Cal!
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Thank you, Angela. That’s true, so much character in this town. Good to know about the stone pine trees, I didn’t know they are called this. They are my mom’s favourite trees. 🙂
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That’s what it’s called here. The botanic name is Pinus Pinea. 🙂
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Happy birthday and thanks for giving us the present of this town and these doors. I really like the lone tower. Perhaps Rapunzel once lived there.
janet
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Thank you, Janet. 🙂 I’m very happy to share it with everybody. Rapunzel would fit right in. And wait till you see a Back to the Future clock one of the next Thursdays.
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It’s been birthdays for a week for me! Mine, Baby Girls today, and yours yesterday!
I love the green doors, and the silo like building. That’s neat.
Enjoy your time with your parents and Amore. See you on WP next week! xx
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Juhuu, Deborah, for you and yours and me too. 🙂 Thank you so much!
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Sending a BIG ole HUG!! Hope you feel it! xx 😁
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I do! ❤
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Again, happy Manja Day and yes the cat and dog must be related!
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Yeahh! Happy happy happy! Thank you, SMSW, and same to you!
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It would appear that you are suitably enjoying your birthday week! Excellent. Keep at it.
Your line “all wear a distinctive shiny coat of glory days long gone but not forgotten” is a perfect caption for these photos. The one that really captured my attention was the one with the small table and 2 chairs under a tree. This simple scene spoke of an uncomplicated life. I could actually picture myself sitting there with the dog and cat in the shade on a warm summer evening sipping chilled wine. It reminded me of a tiny unpretentious restaurant – not much more than a hole in the wall – where we stopped in Calabria when I was looking for my dad’s family. It seriously didn’t look much more than this scene in the photo, but that memory is so perfectly ingrained in my mind! 💕
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❤ Thank you, Joanne. This is such a lovely memory and so nice of you to share it. I can just picture it. Uncomplicated life has much to be desired.
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It reinforces that saying that ‘having more’ doesn’t necessarily make you happier.
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That was like a lot of green doors. May is officially a green door month then 🙂
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True, Marina, as many green doors as I ever hoped to find in a row. 😀 Thank you!
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This record will be difficult to break 😆
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Still a happy birthday, Manja! Hope you felt in step with a doorsday:) Love the striped building, the roof and the frame of the door:) Lucky you to find a whole row of green doors! If that is a light house, you must be pretty close to the coast, eh?
I was gone yesterday to the birthday party (Thurs.) of my fourth grand who announced on his 11th birthday he wanted to spend a week with us in summer, painting with me, wood working with his grand dad. He assured me he would not be bored (lol).
Have a great weekend!
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Thank you, Jesh! 🙂 This is such a great announcement from your grandson! And that is not a lighthouse after all neither a silo, but a water tower (says my father).
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Thank you (about the grandson) It is an equally remarkable tower, whether it’s a light house, silo or water tower (I just can see you dad looking at it and shaking his head, lol – like how fathers do:)
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Buon compleanno!!!! Have you seen Trapani’s saline? They come with flamingos. Nuff said. 😀
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Thank you, Fabrizio! No, I haven’t been there or heard of it. (Amore says Sicilia? Still waiting.) Here we’ve got flamingos too in the winter. You know you’re in the good place when it spells south if you ask the birds.
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I’ll take the tower/ lighthouse/ silo please! 🙂 Another great place with great doors!
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Thanks, Joey. It’s been another thrill-filled doorweek. Been missing those. Tomorrow parents leave already! 😮
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Aww! Well I’m glad y’all had that time together!
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