Today was such a beautiful day. 

It was a day like in a movie,

a day like on social media,

but real, so real.

 

So the Lion King's father was the oldest of 9 children. After WWII, the situation in Naples was dire, and 3 of them emigrated to the US, 3 emigrated to France to work in the coal mines and 3 remained.

Now when the Lion King was little, the siblings from France came on holidays to Naples during summer and he played with his French cousins.

But as it goes, after a couple of years, they stopped coming and they lost contact.

3 years ago, a couple of them came to Naples and we met, me being the only one who spoke both French and Italian.

This week they stay at Ercolano, close to the Vesuvio, for a week and they invited us for lunch.

Of course we brought a good deal of food as well and we all sat at a long table with lots of simple but good food, they'd all learned a little Italian, there were 11 of them and 9 of us and quickly communication problems faded and it was just perfect...

The location was beautiful and there even was a pool and at one point we were all just in the pool together ...

 

A beautiful, beautiful day...

 

Clara