Pic and a Word #153: My emptiness

I shall never forget how upon moving to Italy my parents told me that I lived in the middle of nowhere. Finally.

Emptiness.
Where are you?
When will you return?

I turn my back
when they arrive
and run home
to emerging
nothingness
when they start
to depart.

Best of both worlds.

The views are of the Silver Coast in Tuscany, more precisely, Monte Argentario peninsula, where I roamed with my travelling uncle earlier this month when he dispatched me back home after two months in Slovenia, my land of origin.

If I invite you, you are not the pest. Welcome.

This is how I like it: my small pack with a visitor or two and nobody around for miles.

Monte Argentario peninsula is full of sights like this one.

So far, only my uncle in sight. But we know it’s not for long. It’s early September, they are still here.

The view down into the greens and blues.

Here they are. Happy pest bathing. (Nahh, I’m being too harsh. I love people.)

One would hope they won’t venture on the rocks.

The water is lovely, access is hard.

This rocky “beach” is called Mar Morto because the rocks provide a shelter.

So that in this little cove the sea is really dead calm which pleases the pest. Who told me that Italians only tolerate sandy beaches, which is why I chose this rocky outpost?

On the lookout for another of the peninsula’s 17 beaches.

So pretty. Makes you want to be a boat.

If you’re a car, you do NOT try to connect Porto Ercole and Porto Santo Stefano in a neat little circle. There is a 4 km of narrow stoned strip. Bestia is not relaxed but he trusts the driver. She drove all over Crete for a month on “roads” exactly like this one. Could even take this photo. 😉

Look at the blue doors on that house!

To the second chosen one: beach L’Acqua Dolce near the uber fancy hotel Il Pellicano.

The trail is lovely and takes no longer than 15 minutes.

Promises of the beauty to come.

But there they are again! Plus it’s hot and no shade.

I know, bestia. I’d prefer you could run free too.

After a short swim we are off again.

It’s a pretty spot. Next time: umbrella, or even better, wait for October and back to emptiness.

In response to Patrick Jennings’ Pic and a Word Challenge #153: Emptiness