Grand Hotel Punta Molino 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!

... ne sont pas tres
acceuillant, en tout cas, ils ont souvent l'air bete. Ils sont peu
nombreux a parler et ou comprendre autre chose que l'italien. Ils
n'ont aucun sens du civisme, cela viens probablement de leur
egocentricite. Je dois dire que depuis le debut de notre voyage, nous
ne sommes pas impressione par leur comportements!

... umbrella and raincoat got soaked through to our underwear! Next day it rained hard too but did not mind a lazy day with no sightseeing. The city of Naples has a few nice areas but is a really dirty city and one day of sightseeing was plenty. Seeing Naples and Mt. Vesuvius from a distance is the best way to see them but south of Naples and the Almafi coast is not to be missed.

... as we depart and leave the Bay of Naples, we sail south through the Messina Straits around the toe of Italy toward the Greek Island of Mykonos. But we don't arrive there until October 1st, so that means we enjoy a relaxing day at sea! So far, the weather has been fantastic! Very warm temperatures and little to no cloud! Hope it continues! Se ya tomorrow! Ciao! Rick & Elsie!

... There are about three million people in the whole Naples area. It has a LOT of history, too. A lot of people have heard about the garbage strikes, as well - the dumps are full, so they are working to build plants to burn the trash and produce energy from it and such, but it's a pretty complex situation, I guess. It was a little dirty because of this, but it wasn't as bad ...

... we really wanted to contribute, but this clearly was not in our budget. Again, thank you Fred! For our final day on the coast, we debated going to Capri versus renting a boat which Fred really wanted to do. I have been to Capri before and was not impressed last time with the prices, crowds, over-rated blue grottos. Once Chad read about it himself, especially the price of the ferry just to get over there, it was a no-brainer. We felt bad because we weren't sure if Fred really ...

... morning with depressingly heavy showers, so I pulled on the waterproofs before tackling the Naples traffic. As usual all signs lead to the motorway, but I eventually found the right road. a police woman kindly wrote the names of all the villages I needed to head for on a piece of paper. She, like everyone else I asked, spoke virtually no English. So don't believe people when they claim almost everybody speaks English! I find the coast road and am heading in the right ...