Fontana Amalfi
Piazza Duomo 7 Amalfi, Amalfi Coast, Campania, 84011, Italy
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Homeward Bound
So today is our last day and we head off early for a marginally better flight home on Thomson than coming. However there is the same palaver with cabin baggage and we had to sit in the coach for an hour before we could check in. But home almost on time and all the luggage arrived and we are in one piece so a good outcome!
Overall we had a wonderful time on our magical mystery cruise. We didn't get to Tripoli or Egypt or Tunisia but we had ...
Unravelling Naples, or trying and failing
... Piazza Garibaldi, immediately adjacent to the central train station, is truly a baptism of fire. The clatter and thunder of the vast building site dominating the centre of the large square is only superseded by the raucous bustle of the people who rush, hustle and mill around this rectangular central transport hub. On all sides, the drab hotels sit squashed between tiny neon-signed cafés and tabacchi.
Weighed down by a 70 litre rucksack, Naples is even more perilous. Down ...
The coast is clear
... mellow travelers by the time we reboarded the bus for our drive back north. Tour buses can only go south along the coast, so we took a winding interior road north, with many hairpin curves, almost all of which overlook a sprawling Napoli.
Back at the hotel, Len took us on a one-hour walking tour of Sorrento. He introduced us to all the things Campania (the Naples region) is so famous for: ...
The Tourist Experience
... significant such as their establishing the “rules of the sea” (particularly meaningful to one among us) and in fact claiming a resident invented the compass (and that one among us bought a compass there today) as well as founding the Knights of Malta order and giving them the Amalfi cross that became the famous Maltese cross.
And while we are shooting for that more unique Italian experience, some days being a tourist is just fine.
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Amalfi Coast first stop - Amalfi
The day seemed nice enough, but there didn't seem like that much to see and do in Amalfi. I walked around a bit, tasted Limoncello, and bought a little bottle in the shape of a stilletto. I had a snack that wasn't all that yummy and decided to snap a few photos, buy my t-shirt, and move on to Positano.
I photographed a church here and because I was in a hurry to catch the Positano bus, I completely forgot to visit the church. ...



