Brindisi now and then

Sue and I took a day trip to Brindisi last week to fulfil a promise we made five years ago to visit the Archeological Museum.  There were only a handful of people there, all foreigners, wandering around the pottery shards and broken statues.  You are left with the impression that Brindisi was less a Roman town, than a Roman occupied town, building on Greek civilisations that were many centuries older.  Also one gets a feel for the tremendous strategic importance of this natural galley harbour, which was the gateway to Greece and the Eastern Mediteranean.

When we first came to the Museum five years ago, on a similarly hot Summer day, it was shut for renovation.  If I'm honest I was in a bad way at the time, in the grip of depression, struggling to see anything good in anything, more interested in the shade than the light.  Now life seems a lot better, if a bit uncertain.  Sue has finished work for the Summer and is now casting around for what to do next.  I too am looking for work, although increasingly pessimistic about finding any.  This seems to be becoming our pattern of the last few years, trying to ensure that we don't become so preoccupied with earning a living that the Summer slips past almost without our noticing or having enjoyed it to the full.  We should have such problems!

After the Museum we wandered around the sleepy old town in the height of midday sun, then went for lunch.  The grilled cuttlefish I had were so pretty Sue insisted I take a photo of them.