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Now let the sea day I'll be doing. Hello, my name is Claudia. I was born and raised in Sardinia and I still call it home. I am the mastermind behind the Strictly Sardinia Travel blog and now the Strictly Sardinia podcast where each week I'll bring you the best Sardinia has to offer and share my most useful tips that will help you plan a memorable trip to my wonderful island. In the last episode I talked to you about the gorgeous sant' Antioco island in the Sulkys region in the southwest of Sardinia. I know I suggested that this week I would be sharing my tips on how to get from Cagliari to Alghero, but since something more pressing came up, I have been receiving a lot of emails. Comments on my blog, comments on my social media channels, comments on my Facebook group by people who are concerned that they shouldn't be traveling to Sardinia because of Hurricane Harry and I wanted to share my views that of a local now let me remind you that if you need help to plan your trip to Sardinia, you can count on my blog, strictly sardinia.com which is entirely free for you to access. And if you need even more help than that, you can book a one hour travel consultation with me. The link for that is in the episode description. Back to today's topic, Hurricane Harry. I have been receiving concerned emails. Should I cancel my trip to Sardinia because of Hurricane Harry? Have the beaches off of Sardinia of the Bonnet coast been wiped out or are they gone? And this should mean that there is no point in coming to the island now. I can assure you that nothing, absolutely nothing is gone in Sardinia and whoever implied that the beaches of the eastern coasts of Sardinia have been wiped out or are gone should be fined for spreading fake news. Unfortunately, events like Harry regularly occur in Sardinia in the fall and winter months and when they do, it always looks like our beaches are wiped out. I can assure you they never are. They suffer temporary damage, but nature has a way of mending itself. Our beaches return to their perfect gorgeous form by the summer. So if you're planning to visit Sardinia in this summer, you will find our beaches are as gorgeous as ever. In a way. People of Sardinia, and that would include myself, are angry at social media and media in general for using clickbait titles to attract more readers and not sharing the full picture. Damage is temporary. Lots of local media outlets have done the same, and the comments by locals under those titles are always the same. Why are you spreading fake news? Why are you alarming people? Also, by all means, not all of Sardinia was affected by Hurricane Harry. Even if you came now, a week after Harry passed, most of the island is perfectly fine and accessible. A lot of places have not been touched at all. La Maddalena archipelago, which is one of Sardinia's favorite summer holiday destinations, was not affected. None of the north and west coast of Sardinia were affected. So. So if you visited, say, Costa Paradiso in the north, La Pelosa and Stintino, most famous beach in Sardinia, in the north, Alghuero and Boza in the west coast of Sardinia, the Sinis Peninsula in the west coast of Sardinia, you would see that no damage whatsoever was caused. Cagliari was affected, the capital city. This is where I live, but it's already recovered. The beach at Poeto has been cleaned, There is some seaweed, and that is the case in many beaches in the south and in the east coast of Sardinia. But Posidonia and seaweed is actually healthy and with the winds and the currents that regularly wipe out Sardinia and, you know, pass by Sardinia, they. It will be gone by the time you visit. Locals are already working hard on cleaning and fixing everything. Now, let me remind you that Sardinia is a big island. I know that for whatever reason, you are attracted and obsessed in a way with places like the Baunai Coast, Magdalena Archipelago and the Emerald coast, but there is way more to Sardinia than these three destinations. Sardinia is a massive island. There is lots to see. Even if these places had been wiped out, and I assure you they have not been wiped out, they are not gone. You could visit other places in the island, there's lots of them. You could decide to come here and maybe find, follow a trip that is a bit more out of the ordinary. Visit the west coast, go to places like the Sinis Peninsula, which locals love and tourists have yet to discover. Go to the Costa Verde, which is the wildest coast of Sardinia, where you won't have to be elbowing people at the beach to find a spot. These places are stunning. So spread your love around the island. Now, I know that I probably sound a bit frustrated, but it is hard for us to read such titles. It is hard for us locals to see that you're only interested in two or three places on the island when we know that the island, the entire island, is gorgeous, is beautiful and deserves attention. We don't like questions such as which is the most beautiful beach in Sardinia? Each beach is gorgeous, each beach is different from the other. So there is no point in stressing over visiting one specific spot and driving across the island just for that, when you will have gorgeous places to visit beaches, archaeological sites, towns just within a short drive. Now let me stress once again in case you are still concerned, Hurricane Harry has hit the eastern coast and the southern coast of Sardinia. It has caused damage but we are already at work to fix everything. Nature is already at work to fix everything and by the time you visit in the summer the entire island will be as beautiful as ever. So continue planning your trip to Sardinia. Now if you need me to help you plan your trip you can jump over to my blog sweetleesardenia.com where you'll find even more tips. Or you can get in touch with me and book a one hour travel consultation. The link for that again is in the episode description. Finally, if you like my podcast, I'd be forever grateful if you shared it with your friends who are coming to Sardinia and gave it a good review. Until next week then. Goodbye. Sam.