Naples

 I thought Venice was a rabbit’s warren of confusing and twisted streets.   Ha!  Naples makes Venice look like a well organized, alphabetized, logical roadmap.   But!  We are here and our apartment is quite lovely, tucked away in the Spanish quarter of this mind boggling city.   Twenty-four hours ago we were still waiting for the rain to calm down in Sorrento so we could make our dash for the train station.   It didn’t, and we were soaked again in the process.   But, we made it, caught our train, and arrived in Naples to find the metro line one was closed, due to flooding.  Obviously they got the same rain we did.   No cabs.  No choice but to Google walk our way (approximately 45 minutes, said Google) to our BnB and this we did, taking more than double that time and getting hopelessly lost as we tried to find our place, which Google insisted, was in the middle of a brick wall down an alley.

                                            “Somewhere, down there… is our apartment.”

Dave finally called our host and through another series of merry adventures involving another thousand or more stairs, somehow… we made it.  Whew.  It took us more than 5 hours to go less than 30 km from Sorrento.

Today, Tuesday morning, we have mutually chosen an easy day, and there is apparently a beautiful walk alongside the marina that sounds soothing to the soul.  And, we noted an abundance of fresh vegetables being sold at little stands all through the neighbourhood, which means we will make up a big batch of our favorite roasted vegetables for dinner tonight.  Best of all, no rain!