A long overdue Positanoooo

Day 3
Italy adventures that feel like an AGE ago

So instead of boring you with all the details. These are some pictures of Positano :)

Just a few little tips for anyone planning to explore this little coast line. We walked right down to the sea edge in Positano and all its stunning, I would recommend trekking up the hill a bit to eat though - as its cheaper! :)

La Rosa was a little restaurant by our villa and it had the best food ever. Sea food fresh from the water, homemade pizza, steak and Italian wine. One of the nicest places to eat!

Beautiful place.

pompeiiiiii

Day 2

Pompeii

Pompeii is famous for being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.  You know, when Pokemon cards were all the rage. However, the most 'mazin thing about it is, the city was preserved so perfectly by volcanic ash that now people like me can prance around it and see what it might have been like to be a Roman.

When the volcano erupted it took only moments for the city to be covered in ash and hot lava... and it was so thick and heavy that the roofs of all the buildings collapsed under the weight and the hot ash would have killed anyone not sheltering in the buildings in an instance. There are many tales of people trying to escape by boat and one famous case of a dog that was killed (poor pooch) after being covered in the ash when left chained to his master's house. Yet, because the ash filled the buildings and kept them upright and all the gooey insides were all protected.. this meant when historians (the cool cats of the world) came to explore it, they could discover everything about the city as if it had been parcelled up for them.

So, we walked around all fancy pants and saw the city. Got a bit lost. Saw a Pompeii whore house. Tried to find the people and families covered in ash (because that's the kind of family we are), which resulted in my mum asking Italians "do you know where the dead babies are?" excellent. We even sneakily followed an English tour guide for a while. FREEBIES.

We also parked in a cafe carpark and got tricked into eating their un-fresh food. BOO. So, if you go, don't do that!

I don't have a witty ending for this. Other than, I wish it was that sunny again.

at the tippy tip of Italy

Day 1

Sorrento

Now in Sepia

Our touchdown in Italy started in a typically Italian way... the Naples airport was crazy. Once arriving, we attempted to get a shuttle bus to the car hire place and everyone kept swarming in front of us. This, firstly, confused us. Then it made us determined to get on the next bus. After we squeezed in and felt very pleased with ourselves, we discovered it was literally a 5 minute walk from airport. Damn.

Next we had to map read around Italy in a Citroën.

This was not easy. Especially when scooters overtake you on blind corners and buses do it too!!

We finally arrived at our fancy villa and after a few snapshots we ventured in Sorrento town centre. As it was nearly Easter there was a lot of traffic and we discovered this was because of the parade that goes on through Italy's coastal towns for Easter. We somehow took a detour to the port and managed to find a little restaurant that gave us free champagne on arrival and had views of all the massive ferries docking. It was as posh as that cat.

A few pizzas and wines later, and as we had got up at 4am (with a 6am full on cooked breakfast in the airport) I bet we looked like proper party animals.

Check out that view. bowchickwowwow

Sorrento where the drivers are mental

That rhymed, don't you see?

This was the view from our balcony! Check us out, with a balcony.

This was a picture from the second day, the first was a little less glamorous, more waiting at the airport for crazy car hire cabs to pick everyone up (nobody queues in Italy) and then getting lost... a lot.

Turns out, near Sorrento (in the wrong direction) is a place called Angri.

When you pass it, know you have gone the wrong way, and are stuck on a motorway... it makes you kind of Angri.

Eventually arriving we had a delightful evening eating pizza by the port of Sorrento. There is a windy little road that takes you to the port and its almost scary why it is NOT a one way road as its so narrow and bendy.

A bus overtook us on it.