When I read such an account of authenticity and unspoilt character of your place of origin and its isolation, I wonder how your relatives in the remote village make their living. In similar places I'm familiar with, almost the whole commu ity's income depends on tourism. In fact, on the Adriatic coast, seaside property originally used to be given to spinsters as a punishment because you couldn't grow anything there. When coastal tourism exploded in the 1970s, the stigmatized spinsters suddenly got very wealthy and those looking down on them ate a lot of humble pie. If it weren't for tourism, those people would have a hard time. This way they spend one half of the year shoveling money, and sleeping during the other. That sounds good to me ;)