For example, if you live inland, you can program your radio to skip coastal-flooding announcements.
"Nobody should think that if you live by the water that you're as safe as if you live inland.
If you were farther inland, you'd have had a good chance of finding a bug that was black with red spots.
This is because Italian cuisine is very much based on local produce; if you're by the sea, it'll be fish, if you're inland, it'll be more meat-based.
Rather, they suggested adventure without being even the slightest bit dangerous, but reminding you that if you trespassed far enough inland, you would soon reach the Amazon.
The usual haunts - Costa Smerelda, Archipelago al Maddalena and the Gallura coast - are jam-packed with sunseekers in the summer, but you will get a true taste of Sardinia if you hire a car and make your way down the lovely coast to Bosa, making sure you pop inland to explore intriguing Nuraghic ruins.
But when you travel inland, among the Fulani, the food is totally different.
In general, however, the shaking will be strongest on the coast and diminish somewhat as you move inland.
After 100 miles, you head inland, up over the coastal ranges and into the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth.
As you travel inland, the scrubby vegetation and olive groves gradually give way to wooded hills and fertile valleys with occasional hilltop villages, each with its own character.
