Tuesday 18th - a lovely day, mid 20s and a bit overcast. The morning was spent strolling around the area, Rue de Cler is the adjacent street and is famous food market area. I thoroughly enjoyed looking in every shop, cheese - so many! Meat, fruit and veg, bakeries, patisseries, in fact everything you could imagine food related. I then tried out the metro and went across town changing trains on the way. It is very easy as everything is colour coded, very clean an...

What a great day. Started out cool on the mountain and on the drive to Vallo to catch the train. Sonia and Mili waited with me to see me off on the train to Naples, a very comfortable trip and on time! Arrived Napoli Centrale station and stepped out to get a taxi to the airport. What a ride, crazy driving and as he had plastic covers on the seats I was sliding across the back seat. We arrived at the airport after a 15 minute ride as follows:- constant blowing on...

We've had a couple of interesting days here on the mountain, yesterday we hung the new curtains - as they were too long I cut and hemmed them by hand which was quite a job but enjoyable. Mili decided to make cushion covers from the remnants, one side of one cushion sewn, not sure if they will ever get finished though as her iPad seems to take preference over any other activity. Apart from that we had a quiet day which we enjoyed. There was some rain and storm act...

Friday 14th saw us taking a drive to Sapri to buy some new curtains for the Villetta. The traffic at Palinuro/Sapri was incredible. We finally arrived and Domenik's store was like Aladdin's cave. Any housewares you could possibly want are there. We found some nice ready made curtains and as they only had 2 sets we drove to the other store which is at Scario, at the other end of the bay of Palinuro. More traffic, Sonia was able to get the curtains and we then he...

Yesterday was a quiet day as Sonia's Zia Christina passed away overnight. The funeral was held late yesterday and as Sonia didn't know exactly when the funeral was she waited at the villetta for information. Mili and I walked up to the big local market which is an annual occasion. There were a lot of sellers along the road with everything you could think of if you wanted to buy. Last night there was another festa in the village - this time Festa des Immigrantes...