Meeting Point To join our tour we had to meet at the Star Hotel Terminus in Garibaldi Piazza. As it was a Sunday we weren’t sure how frequent buses would be. It was a very long walk, so we decided instead to get a taxi. The hotel thought we should…
As Jen mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry, our planned tour did not eventuate. Update, the tour operator has agreed to a refund. It’s a special day for Jen today, it’s her birthday, and to celebrate it, we took a tour to the Island of Love, or so it has been…
Reason for this trip. I think this trip might prove momentous, but for all the wrong reasons. Last year we went to Rome on a similar EasyJet holiday. This was a great success. A four star hotel, which was very good. Lovely staff and a beautiful garden restaurant. Everyone we…
Today, we are going exploring, Jen says, to the island of Ischia. So, making use of our 24hour Hop on Hop Off bus ticket from yesterday, took the same bus to the ferry terminal on other side of the historic part of the city. Trish, one of our friends on…
Gatwick to Naples Flight Leaving at a civilised time in mid afternoon, it was an uneventful flight with EasyJet. An on time arrival at just before 7pm. A time change here, so we lost an hour. I wasn’t sure how long immigration would take with the new European entry system.…
Much of our time since returning to the UK has been in visiting family and friends and otherwise, much of it, totally unproductive. Yesterday we had a visitor. A tiny feathered visitor with a red breast. Let’s call it Robin..:) It hopped onto the door ledge then hopped right inside.…
Calais Leaving the campsite at around 10.40, we had plenty of time to have a supermarket stop on the way to the ferry port. We had already shopped yesterday, but I thought we needed more wine and I hoped to find cherries. Cherries were not available, but I did find…
A typical Saturday night, camping and sleep deprivation wise. As Jen mentioned, the singer kept belting out old American songs till after 11pm and then at god knows what hour, a domestic broke out not far away, with both partners screaming at each other and the children wailing, before herself,…
Going Slow France is our favourite country, so for the next couple of days we are going slowly. This morning we got up late, then spent some time chatting to our Dutch neighbours, Menno and Kirsten, so it was 11.00 before we pulled off our camping pitch. The morning started…
After a great sleep, yes, a much cooler night and the sky was blue in the morning. Our destination today is Strasburg 500k’s away, just inside the French border. It’s a slightly north- west trajectory, before dropping south-west, approx 100k’s short of Strasburg. That was the plan but we…