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Europe » Italy » Campania » Pozzuoli April 2nd 2013

Gelato flavour of the day: Again N/A, didn’t pass a Gelateria, damn, tomorrow will be different! We had a mission planned for the day and that was to become self sufficient for breakfast and evening meals. To do this we needed to buy our microwave and toaster and that was going to take locating a shopping mall and one of the big supermercados, like a Warehouse but with groceries etc. After a very good hotel breakfast (man the warm croissants are getting a hiding in the mornings!)we set off downtown to check out what was there in the way of shopping not really expecting to find what we needed. In our one hour walk we did find billboards advertising a mall. So we jotted down the email address and came back to the hotel to suss ... read more
Thermal activity at Solfatara,Pozzuoli
Old excavations under road bridge Pozzuoli
Pozzuoli version of a Colueseum

Europe » Italy » Campania » Pozzuoli April 1st 2013

Gelato flavour of the day: N/A - no time for a gelato today Today, we expected, was always going to throw up some challenges what with, getting to the airport by the arranged time, picking up the car, finding our way south and hoping that the GPS would find our hotel in Pozzuoli near Naples. One isn’t supposed to get stressed on holiday but this isn’t a normal holiday for us more an adventure and with adventures comes the unknown and so the stress levels can rise and so it was to be today, not to a high level, just moderate, letting us know, we had to be on our toes to control the situation. To start with was the extra surprise of city tax to pay when we thought we had paid an all up ... read more
Cindy Citroen,our transport for the next 5 1/2 months




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