Having said goodbye to Sue’s Mum and Dad at Naples Airport we stayed in Maiori for a couple more days before heading out on 7th October. We had stayed twelve days in the end and frankly we were pushing our luck in the little port, which is really suitable only for settled weather. It was a grey and threatening day when we left and we encountered increasingly lumpy seas as we passed by Capri and headed into the bay of Naples. We crossed the bay and called in at Casamicciola, a pleasant little port on the island of Ischia, where we spent three days waiting for a storm to blow out.
We toured this green and almost tropical island on the crowded local buses and paid a visit to the charming villa and gardens created by Sir William Walton the composer and his wife Susana, who still lives there. The storm caused not a little excitement and marked the end of the season for many harbour and beachside cafes, which were pounded by the great white breakers which rolled in along the coast. The morning after the worst of it we saw a couple of bedraggled blokes salvaging the chest fridge and what other bits they could from the wreckage of “Gino’s Bar”, where the day before we’d seen holidaymakers relaxing and drinking. All this was no great tragedy I think, some beach cafe owners dismantle their shacks earlier in the season while others push their luck for a few extra euros until the first of the big autumn storms forces them to shut up shop.
Having said goodbye to Sue’s Mum and Dad at Naples Airport we stayed in Maiori for a couple more days before heading out on 7th October. We had stayed twelve days in the end and frankly we were pushing our luck in the little port, which is really suitable only for settled weather. It was a grey and threatening day when we left and we encountered increasingly lumpy seas as we passed by Capri and headed into the bay of Naples. We crossed the bay and called in at Casamicciola, a pleasant little port on the island of Ischia, where we spent three days waiting for a storm to blow out.
We toured this green and almost tropical island on the crowded local buses and paid a visit to the charming villa and gardens created by Sir William Walton the composer and his wife Susana, who still lives there. The storm caused not a little excitement and marked the end of the season for many harbour and beachside cafes, which were pounded by the great white breakers which rolled in along the coast. The morning after the worst of it we saw a couple of bedraggled blokes salvaging the chest fridge and what other bits they could from the wreckage of “Gino’s Bar”, where the day before we’d seen holidaymakers relaxing and drinking. All this was no great tragedy I think, some beach cafe owners dismantle their shacks earlier in the season while others push their luck for a few extra euros until the first of the big autumn storms forces them to shut up shop.
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