More About Landslide

Some days ago I wrote about landslide in Vietri (Landslide In Vietri. No victims fortunately). Yesterday I was in Salerno and for my greatest fortune the rain was finished in the night. Happy about it, I took my photocamera and made some photos. As it happens often, I made some km-s at feet when I turned home and here I want to show you the street I walk everytime and the place of landslade in Vietri.

Unfortunatelly we have now tragic notices about deaths under landslades everyday. I told you about a minibus and today my husband, that listens all TV news, told me about other victims.

This, first photo, is the way to Salerno. As you can see most are rocks and the place is really spectacular.


But the most incredible in all this are the plants. Those you see here on the right of the road. Oleanders. They are planted by persons. All the right side near the road. There is not earth for the roots there. There is not water in summer, for about 2 months. The temperature is so high and the stones are similar to the cooker. And you have to see these bushes full of flowers.
Well, they are very toxic, but they are beautiful and are there notthat somebody has to smell them.

Now, finally the unhappy bus-stop.



If you ask why these events happen, look at this last photo. I made it other 300-500 meters later. In many cases this is the reason. And very probably that the next landslide will be here. Were there are trees, they help to take the earth for more time.

The Weather In The Supermarket

You will say it's normal, you find it in any place, but I do not meet people too often and live it as bad surprize every time.

Did you notice that most persons that work in the same supermarket have similar behaviour?

This evening we went to a supermarket where I rarely go because it's not very rich on offers, than my husband likes the game of points else (he did not go in the supermarkets till 2-3 years ago), etc etc. So, this evening we went there.

A peculiarity of this team is that they are "thieves". If you want to buy something in gastronomy, they try to give you bad items. When you go to pay, be sure they will take more than necessary or will make you pay something more than you have. And they are very rude if you show them the fault they did to you. "What is happend? You do it here for some cents!" From other side, some cents every client every day -not bad as a complimentary earning. Why not give them to ME, these "some cents", every time I come there?
Nothing terrible but ... unpleasant.

There is an other supermarket where there is the athmosphere of spite, hate. Do you think I'm paranoic? I feel the big stones felt from my shoulders when I go out from there -if I enter there.

And there is an other supermarket where the team is very friendly to the clients, generally... Even if I go there very rarely too.


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Landslide In Vietri. No victims fortunately

What you see on this photo is the situation we live from the middle of November. Here you see the mountains over Nocera, they are in front of other famous in all the world town, Sarno. This zone is similar to a soup plate with Vesuvius in the middle.

What is bad in all this story, that the earth becomes too full of water and beginns to slip from the mountains. Or fall from them. Together or on the heads of those who is so unfortunate to happen in this place in that moment. Some km in front of this place where I made the photo, this autostrada passes under the mountain you see on the left side. About 5 years ago the landslide covered it and there was a car in that moment there. Unfortunatelly for the driver.

Yesterday I went in Salerno for a meeting of our Archeological group. The weather was not good but it did not rain all the day. So I decided to go there because I did not go there for different weeks. The meeting began at 19:00. I came there with a bus and everything was good at that hour. I had to stay there till 20:30 in Salerno, than I had to turn back at feet to make some "fitness", for about 4 km. My husband worked till 22:00 and he had to come after job with the car in that village I reach at that time and we turn home together. The road where I live is too "wild" and difficult to walk up it at feet, so I prefere to make my "fitness" in more populated and flat places.

Thestreet I walk when I go out of Salerno is in the middle of this photo with the fence picted in blue. Practically, it is cut in the rock till Cava (about 6 km). Yesterday evening it was completely blocked with the cars.
Not only the road but houses, rooms, even a fabric of ceramics are applyed to the rocks.

Near this fabric of ceramics in Vietri just behind the man on the left is a bus stop. Rocks felt on this bus stop. When I came only some stones remained there.The road was cleaned. Fortunately nobody was waiting for the bus under that construction in that moment.

Here you see what remained from that big and beautiful construction that was there to protect persons from rain...

Reading And Eating

I love reading. It's a part of my existance. If I can't read, the life becomes too empty and impossible.

If undisturbed, I can read days and nights. If the book is good, I read it till the end without thinking about hours. My family normally accepts it if there is nothing important to do.

When I worked I had not time to read because I was too busy. Specially I had not time to read in other languages. Because I was a teacher of foreign languages, and at that time had not many possibilities to speak with persons coming from other countries, and the TV has not foreign chanals, I had to read books. I had many splendid books in German and some in English too. But was always busy to read them. What to do?

I resolved the problem in simply way: I read when I ate. You need some time to eat. Suppose, about 30 minutes 3 times a day. In this period your eyes are not busy. So you can read.

Some persons can read in the bus or other transport, but I can't. I feel very bad -giddy, sick. So this solution was not good for me. The only time I had for it was the time when I ate. Nothing to do.

So, I cutivated this habit at least 10 years. Maybe it was not so good for health as some doctors say, but I had not other possibility. And it was very sly solution too. We don't like the complications. If I ha to read a difficult book in other conditions, I would maybe never finish even one of them. Because I would read it with a dictionary and woud translate every word I did not know. In this way I would never have enough patience to arrive at the end of a book.
But the situation I created was perfect. Because you read without a dictionary -and the brain has to use all it's resources to understand. Well, I had a big enough dictionary in the head, but we rarely use all we have in the head.

Mmmm... The problem is that now I can't eat if I do not read. My husband wants to eat "together" with me, and he doesn't like a book in my hand when we eat. ;-) Imagine, I feel so that the food I eat canot be digest if I don't read when I eat. And now I have to read even if I don't want it.

A Day Without Rain In Nocera Superiore

I claim it too often this year, excuse me this refrain, but we really have significant change of climate here. In more then 13 years that I live here I've never seen that rain continue without stop for 2 months. From other side, the temperature is always high. There were only 2-3 days when it was about +8°C. This is not very good for plants and it can happen that the cold period will come when the plants will be sowed.

From Friday we are very fortunate: the sun showed us it's face. I had to go to the post in Nocera Superiore and made some photos to the left and to the right from the office. The mountain you see in the background is that where I came from. ;-) There I live on the right downhill. It is 35-40 minutes of the walk.

The old wall on the left of the photo is medieval aqueduct. All you see is situated over the Roman town. In the last period the municipality decided to make the town interesting for tourists and restructured many parts. If you see the other photo, sight on the left from the office, you maybe can distinguish the most important historical building of Nocera Superiore, a Baptistry of the VI century.