Thursday Doors 10/2/22: Cerveteri 1.

A hop back to August when Flavia and I had our last year’s only getaway. A week or so later she was off to Iraq for work.

Ah, how well we did our getaways and how I miss them! So many giggles and jokes, doors for me and windows for her, new places, beauty, fresh air, good food and great company.

Cerveteri is a town in Lazio between her home in Ostia and mine in southern Tuscany where we chose to meet. Her car had a battery problem and while waiting for her I found a car wash. After our lunch in Santa Severa (remember that sea food?) we returned to Cerveteri and had a stroll around, my first.

When in company, I have my eyes open for doors but I don’t overdo it. I shoot from the hip without thinking. The result is that levels are not level but see if I care. I can still recall the atmosphere and luxury of having a friend with me. I confess, it’s hard for me to do it alone, search for new places, so I don’t.

There will be the second post of our one hour in Cerveteri but this is how it started. At the end of the post please find some gratuitous non-door photos involving a cat and a ladybug that you may have seen already, but they make me really happy.

The last time I saw Flavia was three days later when Crystal and Pedro, my visitors from Oregon, flew in and we did a tour of Ostia Antica. Flavia met us there. I had no idea that would be the last time I saw her for such a long while.

Another friend far away made me happy yesterday when she showed me a photo that she took of my Calendar 2022 which she had printed out, just as I’d envisioned. She is the first friend to do so. And today she is showing us several marvellous Rajasthan doors from her country, India. Thank you kindly, Smitha!

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  Welcome to Cerveteri.

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  They buy gold, like more or less everywhere. Caparezza has a song “Compro horror”.

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  A colourful door incline.

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  Grape and wine festival was promised for that afternoon.

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  All together.

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  We will see these two buildings from the other side soon.

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  Ancient reproductions.

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  They test it on the drain pipe, I see.

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  Flavia spotted a cute shutter.

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  A bit wonky but from the heart.

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  The flag on the right has the Cerveteri coat of arms, a three-headed deer.

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  Municipality.

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  Surprising neighbour.

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  Another old horizontal one.

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  The prettiest thing I saw. We were sitting on a bench with this view for a while.

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  A narrow one on the left.

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  An observer from above. Flavia saw it first.

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  Then this fellow flew in. Is it true that the more spots it has, the older it is?

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  A green wedding dress doorfie. To be continued.

For Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities

This day in my blogging history

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  2015: Photo by Julian Lennon

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  2016: Remains of the day

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  2019: Bestia wrote a poem:

  This is my usual pose,
  alert by the fence. (Read on.)

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