Naples Grand

The return date is still undecided :) This should be a great adventure! God is with us!

Welcome to the Grand Chitty overland Australian adventure. We are driving a replica Chitty chitty Bang Bang overland from the Isle of wight to Australia. Chitty has taken four years to build for my avid Chitty Chitty Bang Bang wife and is based on a 1973 ...

"Mies, joka ei ole koskaan ollut Italiassa, on koko ajan tietoinen alemmuudestaan, koska hän ei ole nähnyt sitä, mitä miehen odotetaan näkevän." -Samuel Johnson-

... to wander around London, Paris, some of Italy and a bit of Switzerland. While I was in Italy, I hoped I would learn about art and get to watch a F1 Grand Prix. I also decided to take my mum to London and Paris as present for her 60th birthday. Let's go!!!

Nice spot. actually did get ...

...   The views are amazing there and the hotel we stayed at was awesome it had 5 pools and our room overlooked the Gulf of Naples.  There was also good shopping there up and down the street.  We also found the best gelato place ever and I got ...

... nbsp; These cities and sites were on the agenda for Day 2 or Tuesday. We left first thing in the morning from the port in Naples to the town of Pompeii. In the bus we were given our history lesson of how the Volcano (Mt Vessuvius) erupted and covered ...

... cathedral size." We ended up buying a lovely, white, unglazed porcelain one made in the Capodimonte factory. (Capodimonte porcelain is famous in Naples because one of the empresses had a whole room done in it. It is glazed and painted. We saw the room ...

... and it is a very grand building with plush red seats set ampitheater style into numerous tiers with grand opera boxes near the stage from top to bottom.  Beautiful for sure and for the opera lover a must see in Naples, probably THE must see in ...

... site et doit nous guider pour reculer. Le lendemain nous sommes allés visiter nos amis Francine et Gilles Brabant qui séjournent aussi à Naples mais de l’autre côté de la ville à environ 35 km de l’endroit où nous séjournons. Leur ...

... a palava! Isy slept loads on the train but Rob decided to plan his next travelling trip...very productive! So anyway, arrived in Naples and found our hostel. It was more like a hotel really, with massive rooms, a balcony, nice bathroom and croussants and ...

... town, with some large cruise ships stopping off, as well as being a ferry terminal to various destinations around the Adriatic Sea. Naples This city was a time for us to rest after spending so much time in travelling around central Europe and to learn a ...

The vacation in the keys has ended and this morning we bid goodbye to out fantastic hosts the Mosers and left for Naples, driving through "alligator alley" on the way. Basically there is an alligator every 50-100 ft along the side of the road!! We stop a ...

... wrong car -- and... had to high tail it from car #11 to car #2 .... With less than a minute to spare... Oops. But the Naples taxi driver was friendly. He pointed out a few sites along the way and didn't hit a single vespa driver. I didn't see many ...

... at all, dropped our stuff off, and I went out to get some food cos I was starving, and afterwards figured I'd walk around a bit. Naples is dirty and it's noisy, it's a circus. Most of the old buildings look their age and are in disrepair, peeling and ...

... along this congested arterial shopping street to perhaps go on a swift shopping spree. Descending on Piazza Plebiscito, Naples' main square, I found police and security forces everywhere in conflict with screaming demonstrators and activists. I asked a ...

... side and crosswalks, and to top all of that off, make u-turns a perfectly acceptable method of changing direction.  Welcome to Naples!  We would hear ambulances.  We would see cars and cycles parked on the street with dents and dings, but never did we ...

... am I'a going to do with you."  Anyway, Mt. Vesuvius has a unique shape to it and is quite visible from the horizon within Naples and surrounding islands.  It took us a while to get to the summit and look in which offers a decent view, but it's ...