Sunday, August 27, 2006
23 August, 2006
We were woken by a sudden thud on the door at 7h00 and this meant it was time to get up and go for breakfast. This consisted of stale bread and jam, hard-boiled egg and tea/coffee- not bad. We drove off the ferry by 8h30 and thought we were doing well. Wrong! It took us 2 hours to get out the port. There is just no system and the Italians drive anywhere. Absolute chaos again; the same story with two queues that became five. We waited and waited and eventually got on our way for Napoli. The drive took quite a long time, about four and a half hours to reach Sorrento which is before Naples. We found Grant and Nikki from the UK at their hotel and they came with us on our search for accommodation. We settled at Hotel Elios which is recommended for its clean rooms. It was a decent room with a sea view and there was a huge kitchen downstairs. We all went to the supermarket and got some smoked salmon and cream cheese and had some of our Croatian wine with dinner on the terrace of our hotel. It was a lovely evening and even better to be able to spend it with Grant and Nikki.
We were woken by a sudden thud on the door at 7h00 and this meant it was time to get up and go for breakfast. This consisted of stale bread and jam, hard-boiled egg and tea/coffee- not bad. We drove off the ferry by 8h30 and thought we were doing well. Wrong! It took us 2 hours to get out the port. There is just no system and the Italians drive anywhere. Absolute chaos again; the same story with two queues that became five. We waited and waited and eventually got on our way for Napoli. The drive took quite a long time, about four and a half hours to reach Sorrento which is before Naples. We found Grant and Nikki from the UK at their hotel and they came with us on our search for accommodation. We settled at Hotel Elios which is recommended for its clean rooms. It was a decent room with a sea view and there was a huge kitchen downstairs. We all went to the supermarket and got some smoked salmon and cream cheese and had some of our Croatian wine with dinner on the terrace of our hotel. It was a lovely evening and even better to be able to spend it with Grant and Nikki.
# posted by Heidi & Richard's travels @ 3:04 AM 
