This morning we found MADRE a free modern art museum and squeezed it in before grabbed some fruit and our brickpacks (aka. backpacks) and headed to catch our ferry. If we loves Naples we loved Ishia for all the opposite reasons. Ischia is quaint, picturesque and almost tropical. It's classy and full of grey pounds. The hotel was absolute luxury. We spent 10% of our time discussing the sun and sunbathing 10% eating the delicious food (think beautiful seafood, ra...

Naples is a gem and the food is an absolute highlight. All these local pastries for a euro. And all the little pretty alleys! The day started with a lovely lie-in giving us 12 well-earned hours sleep. We asked the friendly owner of the hotel for directions and advice for getting to Pompeii. it seemed so simple! 1 metro stop, platform 3 to sorrento, Pompeii was our stop and the entrance was directly outside the station. Yeah right!! First we went to our metro s...

After only a few hours sleep we set off. Awake at 2.30am, in Rome by 9.30am CET. Getting out of the airport was a shock. We couldn't even see the bus we wanted or were even sure the directions we had were from the right airport so we quickly caved and got a taxi. Glad we did - we would never have found it. From broken english spoken by our taxi driver and a confusing buzzer system we climbed through a tiny Alice-In-Wonderland door in the middle of huge wooden do...