Author: John Martin
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Day 61 – Leaving Naples and a bit of Lucca
Post Views: 42 So, we’re on the way home! We’re heading north now, and going to be taking big chunks out of the 2,500km we have to get there. We had a spectacular thunderstorm roll through the bay of Naples last night, from about 11 until 1 – sheet and fork lightning. The wind got…
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Day 60 – Naples
Post Views: 47 Not much to report today. We trained it into Naples, wandered around and did the Underground Naples tour. Our start wasn’t too rushed this morning, we were hoping to get the 9:30 train from the Villa Regina train station so we walked the 15 minutes to the station rather than take the…
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Day 59 – Pompei and Dan Snow
Post Views: 65 Day 59 of the “where’s my…” tour. Blimey, where’s all that time gone?! We’re calling it the “where’s my..” tour because we’ll both be exclaiming, multiple times a day, “where’s my” such and such as we panic about glasses, debit cards, passports, van key, etc etc etc. To date though, its just…
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Day 58 – Villa Julia and Vesuvius
Post Views: 49 Today we’ve got a short hop from just north of Amalfi to up to Pompei. We also need to do some shopping and possibly even fit another visit in while we’re at it (turned out to be Vesuvius). As we left the site we were just at the wrong time for the…
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Day 57 – Amalfi and Positano
Post Views: 39 Well, that was a bit of a crazy day! Nine hours out and about… getting to Amalfi on the bus, ferry to Positano, Positano, ferry back to Amalfi, Amalfi and the bonkers bus back to the campsite. It was a bit of an early start that we needed to get on the…
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Day 56 – Paestum and travel to Amalfi
Post Views: 40 So… this was one of the days I’d been looking forward to. We’d visited Paestum in 2019, and if we were going to be in the area again then it’s somewhere I wouldn’t want to miss. The morning started with a cacophony though! Cockerels from 6:30 and church bells from about 7:30.…
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Day 55 – Matera and travel to Paestum
Post Views: 51 It’s another (mostly) travel day today. We’re leaving the fabulous town of Matera and heading for Greek Paestum. But first we had to check out the “other” view of Matera, from the other side of the valley looking back at the town. We couldn’t check out of the campsite until 9:30 (probably…
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Day 54 – Matera
Post Views: 45 Well… it’s another one of those WOW! days. You can see why Matera got used in the latest No Time To Die, Bond film. It was a reasonably leisurely start as we opted to take one of the two complimentary shuttles into town from the campsite. Which dropped us off at the…
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Day 53 – Gallipoli to Matera
Post Views: 46 Another travel day… the relentless pull of the road never ceases! Not much to report today, and the Dashcam was playing silly buggers (needed the SD card reformatting) and so there’s not much from there either. Camping Torre Sabea was a nice little site. Very tired, quirky, but we enjoyed it. Sue…
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Day 52 – Gallipoli
Post Views: 40 After making our way yesterday from Brindisi to just outside Gallipoli, through Lecce, we were destined to head into Gallipoli today. It was a sunny start to the day, but way too early. We’re right next to the loos at this site and the cleaners were chatting loudly to each other and…