Fisher's Europe 2012: Saturday morning-Golden Beaches and Zumba in the village

Saturday morning- Golden beaches of Rimini and Zumba in the village

Lazy morning and then with a warm day forecast of to Rimini which is a seaside port/resort north east of Mondavio about an hour away. Rimini has miles of sandy beaches (sand quality like Sandringham) with thousands of umbrellas and lounges to sit on at a cost. There is also a great free beach at the northern end of the main beach near the fishing port. Great sand, toilet/change rooms and beach showers. Needless to say thats where we were. Lots of lifesaver towers with row boats as the rescue vehicles (see photo). Had a great afternoon and even Robyn got wet as it was 32C.

Back home to get ready for the village Zumba party. The whole square (1 basketball court in size) was set up for the Italian Zumba show/spectacular. Due to start at 9 it actually started at 10. Roberto and his bar, il Duca, were major sponsors. Bit of a drama with the beer keg but after a couple of phone calls-success. See photos of Roberto and Pamelia and mate working the bar. There was at least two hundred girls ‘zumbaring’ but the boys just stood around and ‘watched’. It was hard to get a decent photo of all of them but it was like a swarm of insects all moving in time. Obviously the performers were known to the crowd. All round a lot of fun. We left by 11 but it went on until early morning. This morning the square is back to normal and I enjoyed my early morning expresso (still 90c) ‘reading’ the paper. By the way we do get BBC and Europe’s CNN on cable at the apartment so we can keep up with news. The local news is either earthquakes, Europe 2012 international football tournament (starts in a week) or Italian match fixing (no real surprise there).

Off to Fabriano this afternoon to pick up Julie Faulkner who is staying with us for a few days before going home via Cinque Terre and Milan.