It is with sadness that we leave the beautiful city of Salerno, our home for six days.

Preperation began with a walk to a local garage to fill up the spares tank for our tender, as we plan to do a lot of anchoring in the next few days. Two reason. One, the weather is calm with next to no winds and two, were not paying €200 per night for marina berths. So we prepared Arctura for our next leg, which was along the Amalfi Coast and onto the island of Capri. We anchored up at Positimo for a light lunch and then motored up to Capri where we anchored up on the western edge of the  bay of Marina Piccola. Beautiful cliffs towered above us with caves half way up. Hundreds of birds flying in the sky above us and winding their way through the cliffs.

We settled for the night after a wonderful Chilli prepared by Elaine. The night was quite as was the sea state, but later on into the night Arctura pitched and rolled in the swell. The night was uncomfortable but bearable and waking up in this most idyllic location is what sailing is all about. A trip to to land and exploring Capri beckons.

Our anchorage and temporary home.

Today we decided to take a train into Naples, so we left Arctura at 09:00 for the 2.2 km walk to Salerno Stazione. We bought our tickets, €15 return, and caught the 10:33 to Naples.

I had been to Naples two years earlier and getting out of the train station was reminded that nothing much had changed. A overcrowded, polluted, dirty and noisy city, where you put your life in the hands of mad motorists and feel extremely edgy about the safety of yourself and your wallet and iPhone. That said we made our way from Naples train station to a wonderful Pizza place, recommended to us by our friendly Marina ormeggiatori. Again about a 2km walk and the resturant “ Di Matteo “ had wonderful pizzas and good wine. The pizza were generally €5 each as was a bottle of house wine.

Refreshed, fed and watered we move through the narrow streets of Naples and explored the city. Churches every 100 metres and souvenir shops and resturants even more frequent. We signed up for an underground tour of the City and found it fascinating how the ancient Romans lived. From what it seemed in better standards than the current occupants.