When R and I were in Capri we saw this map of the island.  It was made out of tiles and was actually an advertisement for a pizza restaurant.  I liked it so…

Home again today.  The flight was at 6:30am so we had to get up at 3am.  Actually we could probably have left it quite a bit later but R is very fond of…

Actually not Dracula’s Castle (that’s in Transylvania) but Dracula’s putative tomb in the church of Santa Maria Nuevo.  Actually the evidence of it actually being related to Vlad himself seems a bit tenuous…

We went to Capri today having now located the right part of the port for the hydrofoils (we saw the Sorrento ferry we should have caught yesterday).  The crossing was a little choppy…

Not quite such a nice day today.  We were going to take the ferry to Sorrento and the train back.  We walked down to the ferry port and bought the ticket – we…

Today we went to the Royal Palace of Caserta which is a short train ride from Naples.  The day started well because it was a double decker train.  I love trains, and this…

Today we went to the Archaeological Museum of Naples, in my opinion one of the greatest museums in the world.  Amongst other things, it holds the finest of the artifacts taken for their…

Today the plan was for Herculaneum in the morning and Vesuvius in the afternoon.  I have been up Vesuvius before (with J) and in September it had been freezing cold and very windy…