This actually happened last Sunday, but sadly I did not manage to make some time to write this post. But I think it is better later than never 😀 .
Camogli is a small fishing village to the south-east of Genova. Since 1952, every year, on the second Sunday of May, a festival is organized dedicated for fish frying. In an enormous frying pan fish is being fried and served for free to the locals and to the curious tourists.
Living so close to Camogli (14 minutes by train), we decided to go down and see what is going on. After all, the previous night there were some nice fireworks visible, so it must be “something” 🙂 . Our trip started with very good news: the workers of the Italian Railway Company (Trenitalia) have picked this day for a strike and there were some precious few trains left in service that day. No matter, we waited for about 2 hours in the Nervi Railway Station ( at least I could try out calmly my new camera… 😛 ).
At last, a train came and picked up the nervous passengers. Arriving in Camogli we had a huge crowd awaiting for us. Little ad-hoc boutiques, carabinieri and people, people, people were everywhere. It was a very hot sunny day, so it was just perfect for a little sweating for the day in the crowd 🙂 . Of course there were the intelligent ones, who simply went for a swim and did some sunbathing on the pebbly coast of Camogli… (sadly that day none of us was prepared for this… ). A few of my friends managed to wait the long line and get some fish. I tasted it too, it was really good, I think it was worth standing in line for it (especially if it was not me standing in line 😛 ).
I think mostly this is it, nothing more to say. A fun day, just getting out from our houses and enjoying the yearly festival of fish frying… There are some photos on my Picasa account.
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