Hero with a Red Napkin

So we were just eating dinner at this restaurant on Via Lido down the street from our apartment when all of a sudden I'm like, "COCKROACH!", and then I discover that it's just a very large grasshopper (just like at home in my apartment) and I'm about to let it go until the thing JUMPS on me so I stifle a scream and jump out of my chair and knock him off the chair onto the ground. Then this Italian man gets up with his cigarette hanging out of his mouth and his big red napkin and attempts to squash the thing, but it's too fast for him... So he actually somehow gets the grasshopper out of the restaurant (keep in mind our restaurant is right on the beach) and the grasshopper comes hopping back in (probably wing-less from the first blow) so I here his girlfriend go, "Qua!" When the man actually catches him (as in, "put it over there!" as she gestures toward the door) and he goes, "Ritornato sempre!" ("He always comes back!"). So he disappears with the grasshopper in his red napkin towards the front of the restaurant and that was that. Haha I don't know what he did with the grasshopper.

In other news, today we climbed down an oceanside cliff with 654 stairs to Neptune's Grotto (a beautiful 70 million year old cave carved out of the cliff with stalagtites and stalagmites in huge formations). Then we also climbed back up 654 stairs to the top and lived to tell about it!

We also tried to go to Spiaggia della Pelosa and that was a trip and a half. Believe me, when you're attempting to speak a foreign language, even parking can be the royalest pain in the you-know-what. Then as soon as we finally got on the beach, it got overcast and cold. C'e la vita.

We love Alghero. Tomorrow we take our Italian rent-a-car to Costa Smerelda to mingle with the rich and beautiful (sans grasshoppers)...