How do you know you are traveling off the beaten path? I’d say when you see no one but a solo local person at a little town off of the Adriatic Sea.
Seeing that he was processing fish, probably caught on-site, we stopped. Many words tried to rush out in English. Facing the reality of language barrier, we chose silence.
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“Pesce rosso”, he said, eyes still on what his hands were working on.
”Si”. Judging from the obvious color of the fish, we replied.
Out of blue, he raise the red fish to his mouth.
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“Lupo di Mare”, he said.
Proud to know what lupo means in English, we quickly responded “Si si si si”. In hindsight, I’m not too sure who he was referring to as the lupo. What do you think?
Throughout our travels, we’ve appreciated a variety of landscapes (see my theory about People Are Landscape). It’s usually the experience with beautiful and/or interesting people that we still remember many years later.
Do you want to take a wild guess on what Monopoli means? Put your thought in the comment below.
