Monday, November 9, 2009

Saffron Festival

This weekend we went to a saffron festival. It wasn't anything special but it was a good way to spend a rainy weekend with my Mamma and friend Marta while Enrico enjoyed surfing at Cala Cipolla (Onion Cove, called that way because many beautiful sea daffodils grow there and if you pick them them smell like onions, that is why they are more commonly called "cipolla di mare" onion of the sea, and where the cove gets its name from.)

Cala Cipolla

On the way to the small village of Villanovafranca
where the saffron festival took place.

Saffron Flowers

My Ma and our friend Marta

The Sky
Sardinian woman making semola


Semola or semolina made from durum wheat

Beautiful rianbows!



Country side