NEW NAME FOR OLD ROADS

They have put up street signs with the names of the roads on them. As anyone who has visited us knows, there is no direct way to get to the main road from our house. First you must go down to the sea, second along the sea, and then up to another corner to turn onto our road that parallels the main road and the sea. This “horseshoe” shape had previously been unnamed to the best of our knowledge. We knew all of it as Contrada San Marco, which is the name of the main street. Our niche here on Baia Renella is part of Capo San Marco, or San Marco cape, which you CAN see on big maps.
Well, no more anonimity! Not only did they finally get it together to clean the beach of a year’s accumulation of natural and man-made crap, but also they put up easy-to-read signs. So now the way is guided by the meaningless names 1) "Via Arenella" (no picture going downhill, sorry) 2)“lungomare Giovanni da Procida” (lungomare is any street along the shore) 3) and “Via della Lanterna.”
I’ll have to ask Paolo where these names come from-remember the naming of the street after his uncle. The people in street naming are famous for some local reason. I guess I understand the "Arenella" from the name of the Bay (Baia Renella), and the Via della Lanterna must be because of the light house (“il Foro”) that has historically been located on the road to Sunset Point. Interestingly, our street still does not have a name, and it is known only as the street where Residenza Baia Renella is located.
We swam a bit yesterday again although the rain and cloudy weather cooled it down a bit. But it is nice to just sit on the uncrowded beach in the sun and read. I have a feeling we will need to get to the beach to escape the confusion in the house everyday soon. The next week is a big construction week with us so stay tuned.
Here are pictures of the beach cleaned for the one time all year. Look at the track marks!! There is definitely less beach this year than last year.