BeachWednesday : 1986 The end of an Era!

Museddu Beach Cardedu Sardinia Italy, this particular beach holds a special place in my childhood memories.

It was the highlight of our summer school holidays, preparing our bags ready for the departure knowing that my granddad had built the tent on the beach ready for our arrival.

In those days transportation to and fro from the beach was difficult.

It was so much easier to set up camp for two months where the family resided and the working members of the family would travel to and fro at the weekends.

The whole beach was invaded by a long row of homemade tents, we had everything bar the kitchen sink!

When this trend commenced, many of the families that occupied the tents were from my parents’ hometown Jerzu.

There was that many people from Jerzu camping at Museddu, that at the time it was known as the Sea of Jerzu, when in reality it belonged to Gairo.

This photo was taken in 1964, and the row of tents are just about visible.

One of the things that stuck in my memories is, when we used to get up early in the morning, my grandma would prepare us our favourite breakfast; fresh bread oozing with melted Nutella and send us off out to the beach.

I would sit just in front of the sea shore, on the soft cool sand before the rising sun would turn it into ardent grains, thinking “It won’t be long!”, as we were never allowed in the water until three hours had passed by after eating, not that it ever stopped me tucking into my Nutella treat though, I waited not so patiently lol

In 1986, this truly fabulous era ended. No more camping on the beach has ever been allowed.

All great things come to an end, but we still managed to enjoy all the things that made those days special, with a little extra effort but well worth it.

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