Continental Terme Ischia
Via Michele Mazzella 74 Ischia, Ischia, Campania, 80077, Italy
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Homeward Bound
... Alex kept our glasses filled and Vijay looked after us (and Bertie our ursine travelling companion ) very well indeed.
Suzanne and Pablo were great Ents officers and very good on the quizzes, too many clever folk on board though we didn't win a thing!
Bruce Morrison and Petra the Classical pianist were standouts in the entertainment which we attended more than usual.
So another fabulous cruise, nearly time for the next ...
Unravelling Naples, or trying and failing
The centre of Italy’s poor south, Naples is a mish-mash of old money, poverty, migration and organised crime. Aside from the visible disintegration of the city’s buildings, the night train from Bologna shows a more human side to the city. Dozens of travellers embark in northern Italy on a Friday night because mass unemployment in Naples means that they must seek and take up work in the north during the week. However, the fierce protection of the Neapolitan identity necessitates ...
Jackpot of the Sea!
... it for 2 nights at this place - it was so comfortable here...family run for the last 20 years and just such a positive feeling surrounding it. They also offered something i had not heard of before, "half board." This is where you get breakfast AND dinner...you choose from a limited diner menu during your breakfast and they are ready to serve you when you sit down for dinner - so cool and convenient, and GOOD. All for only 10 Euros more per night....totaling ...
Frescos and Pasta
... villas and did a longer tour of Arianna in the rain and a shorter tour of San Marco. It is so hard to find the words to describe these sites. I have spent hours in them. Despite that, I am still blown away by the majesty of the art. It is so easy to teach in that context. The catch is, that I have to slow down because the students overload and begin babbling eventually. There is just so much to process.
After lunch, we rode over ...
The Isle of Capri
... tourists - very similar to American pizza, and the most unremarkable food I've had in this country), picked up a rock off the beach to bring home with me, and boarded the boat for Sorrento. Mostly overcast, so not the most conducive to good pictures. It is a lovely island though, and I hope to have time someday to walk more of it on a bluebird sunny day.
Strolled around Sorrento for a bit, became famished right ...



