• Badalucco: open air cinema (21:00, Piazzetta del Parroco)
• Ceriana: ethnic music
• Montalto: theatre performance
• Realdo: presentation of the first streambed trakking on the river Argentina. Might be very interesting - who knows where and why Argentina is losing its water? In Taggia it’s completely dried out, and here in Triora there are watefalls and lakes

• Ceriana: ethnic music
• Seborga: live music with “Primavera” orchestra
• Verdeggia: celebration of the saint called Rocco. I say, what a funny name for a saint!

Today is Ferragosto day, the top of summer holidays. Lots and lots and lots of people around, inspite of the foggy weather. 160 people booked lunch at Colomba d’Oro - incredible. This lunch has a fixed price - 30 euro per person! Very expensive for Triora.

Well, what we can do around?

• Andagna: sagra del brasato at 20:30 (as far as I know, it’s meat cooked in oven for a long time), and then live music at 21:30
• Badalucco: live music at 19:00 (Piazza Marconi) with “Activa Band”
• Carpasio: festival of kites
• Ceriana: dancing on the favour of Red Cross
• Montalto: Irene Veneziano plays piano at 21:00
• Pompeiana: sagra of gnocchi (little potato ravioli)
• Realdo: game of square ball (sic!) at 14:00 and then at 21:00 dancing with “Sonora”

• Andagna: sagra dell’asago. The matter is that I don’t have a slightest idea what the hell is asago, neither does google.com or my Italian husband. I’m tempted to drive there only to get the translation
• Badalucco: live music (”I Mama Funk” and “Skary Band”… maybe they meant “scary”?). 19:30, Piazza Marconi
• Perinaldo: observations of Jupiter and stars. 21:30, observatory
• Cervo: classical music played by Ning Feng (violin, Paganini prize 2006) and Yukako Morikawa (piano). Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Paganini. 21:30, Piazza dei Corallini

• Realdo: 21:30 “Bruti e Boi” (”Bad and Good Ones”) - a rather popular group that plays traditional Ligurian music

• Triora: maxi open air disco. Hope they’ll grill sausages!
• Perinaldo: the third night of fallen stars (observatory, 21:30)
• Seborga: lunch of alpini (mountain soldiers)
• Ceriana: ethnic music

• Andagna: 20:30 gastronomy, 22:00 open air disco
• Badalucco: open air cinema (21:00, Piazzetta del Parroco)
• Ceriana: dancing with the orchestra “Baronetti del Liscio”. Mussels alla marinara (that is, in garlic and tomato sauce)
• Menton: Spivakov (violin) and Ghindin (piano) playing three sonatas of Brahms. 21:30, Parvis de la Basilique Saint Michel Archange
• Perinaldo: again, the night of falling stars (observatory, 21:30)
• Realdo: the orchestra “Ciansunier” (must be a dialect)
• Seborga: the orchestra “Gli Ascendenti” (ascending… stars?)

• Andagna: 20:30 gastronomy, 22:00 open air disco
• Badalucco: open air cinema (21:00, Piazzetta del Parroco)
• Ceriana: dancing with the orchestra “Baronetti del Liscio”. Mussels alla marinara (that is, in garlic and tomato sauce)
• Menton: Spivakov (violin) and Ghindin (piano) playing three sonatas of Brahms. 21:30, Parvis de la Basilique Saint Michel Archange
• Perinaldo: again, the night of falling stars (observatory, 21:30)
• Realdo: the orchestra “Ciansunier” (must be a dialect)
• Seborga: the orchestra “Gli Ascendenti” (ascending… stars?)

• Badalucco: open air dancing (21:00, Piazza Marconi)
• Molini Di Triora: hunting for treasures, whatever it means
• Perinaldo: the night of falling stars (21:30, observatory). The only problem might be clouds

• Triora: charity lotto game (21:15, Boschetto)
• Menton: Grisha Sokolov plays Shubert and Scryabin (21:30, Theatre Francis Palmero - Palais de l’Europe)
• Seborga: Orchestra “Wilmer Divina”

Yesterday we had another dialect performance, “A tersa porta” (On the third port?), but I was too tired to attend it, after having spent the whole day travelling to Nice and Sanremo. But I’d like to take part in the lotto game tonight. It is raining at the moment, but hopefully the evening will be clear.

Only one thing has drawn my attention, and it’s in France, not in Italy.

• Menton: classical music performance by a chinese pianist Song Siheng. Beethoven, Debussy, Wagner/Liszt, Ravel, Ginastera (Chapelle des Penitents Blancs, 18:00)

Who the hell is Ginastera?

• Badalucco: today opens a painting exhibition (until 6th of September). Also, there is a festival in the honour of Madonna of the Snow (why the hell in August?!) and ballroom dancing with the orchestra “Omar della Giovanna” (20:30)
• Ceriana: dancing and gastronomy
• Seborga: “Angels under the sky” - open-air poetry and paintings
• Verdegga: fest of Saviour, with free excursion to Monte Saccarello. I’m afraid, it’s too late, the excursion started at 6 in the morning, and at 11:00 there was a mass by a bishop

• Andagna: gastronomy evening with local specialities (20:30). followed by open-air disco dancing (22)
• Ceriana: more or less the same, “festa in musica” and local dishes
• Montalto: harmonium and piano duet Adriana Costa e Marco Peron (21:30 Pieve di San Giorgio)
• Seborga: fest of mussels with the orchestra “Sandro Moreno”

Thanks God, it’s Friday! So life is a little bit more vivid here.

• Triora: comic performance (in the ligurian dialect) by Montalto actors; the masterpiece is called “Vegliu sci, ma scemu na”. As far as I can guess, it should be “I want to be there, but I am here”, but it’s a wild guess! (21:15, Boschetto)
• Seborga: classical music
• Badalucco: open air cinema (21:00, Piazzetta del Parroco)
• Perinaldo: observations of the stars, Jupiter, Moon etc. (observatorium, 21:30)

Even less than yesterday!

• Seborga: dancing with the orchestra “Stefano Frigero” from Radio Zeta

Not much happens here, really.

• Castellario: San Pietro celebrations, dancing, local dishes
• Ceriana: mountain bike competition