Clarion Hotel Hermitage & Park Terme Ischia

We are now booked to stay at Ulisse Deluxe Hostel for one week... is "deluxe hostel" an oxymoron?
Looking for some tips for what to do here... Capri? Amalfi? Positano? Anyone been and have firsthand knowledge?

Nous avons pris l'autobus publique pour atteindre le sommet du vesus, le volcan n'a pas tellement a offrir, mais la vue sur la bay est vraiment belle. Ensuite, nous avons visités les ruines d'Herculaneom. Une autre ville disparue sous l'eruption du vesus il y a pres de 2000 ans. il y a encore beaucoup de travail d'archeologie en cours, mais on peut voir que la ville est meiux conserver, il y a meme des batiments de 2 et 3 etages et des pieces de bois qui ont traversé le temps !

I am so far behind with this blog. Partly, it's because we have traveled every single month during 2009. There's so much to tell & show that unless I write every week, I'm always several trips behind. The other problem is ...

... aire déserter par les habitants de naples, et puis ensuite on c'est refugier dans le chateau ouvo pemdamt l'orage. nous avons eu un excellent point vue sur le volcan Vesuve. Puis ensuite nous avons visiter le vieux quartier ou les rues tres etroites ne laisse pas entrée les raysons du soleil ! Il y a meme une rue ou l'on ne retrouve que des commerces d'articles de noel. tout pour se refaire une creche ou redecorer l'arbre a chaque année!

on quitte orvieto pour se rendre a
naples. Le train a 30 min de retard et une fois monter a bord, le
retard s'accumule. On a passer la journee dans le train et on est
arrive a naples avec plus d'une heures de retard. Ce n'est pas
tellement grave, il a plue presque tout la journee. Enfin a notre
Naples, Campania, Italy frdrick

Stayed in a small town south of Naples (Vico Enquense) which was right on the water (in a rather remote cove). We rented an apartment for the week which was part of a hotel complex. At the beginning of our trip, we met Tony (from Jersey City) who was from Vico and told us where to get the best pizza and his wife was from Sorrento (which is just south of Vico) so we had some ...

... park a smart car. And nobody got parking tickets.

Our first bus tour, on the red bus, began at the Castel Nuovo and headed north to the Museo de Campodimonte passing the Fontana in via Medina, Convitto Nationale (National School in Naples), Basilica de Santa Maria della Sanita and the Church of Madre del Buon Consiglio along the way.

Returning to the bus terminal, we ...

... 500 odd stairs back up the cliff side. It was the best 10 Euros I have ever spent... Without knowing what the hell was going on, we boarded what we assumed was a taxi, got driven to one boat in the bay and got thrown pasta???? After saying thankyou and thinking that was nice, we went to another boat, who took our pasta... But gave us drinks??? Then we picked up a group of people from the boat and took them to the bay... And only then did he ...

... and was our ambassador to Sorrento and fine food for the time we where there. After checking in, we proceeded to set the night ablaze... Italy style. We enjoyed a meal w/ Franco at his humble restaurant, then flowed into the streets with our bellies full. Bellisimo footnote: Sorrento is a beautiful town, perched on cliffs, but with no beaches. The of Vesuvius and white pants, white linen shirts, and white sandals abundant. After a day of relaxing at Marameo, a deck like beach ...

... outside another portacabin with a sign saying, Grimaldi Biggleteria and check in. Inside i got two surprises. The bad news was that I couldn't buy a return ticket on the day of departure, singles only, bang goes the budget. The good news was that the Eurostar Valencia called to Tunisia before stopping at Malta. Two nights on board not one as I had assumed. I went off to get some food for the voyage. I returned at four as instructed and spent an entertaining couple ...