A Captain's Log

 Our last port of call is Cagliari, which is the capital of the Italian Island of Sardinia, only about 20 or so miles away from Corsica, where we called earlier in the cruise, and indeed both look very similar, Sardinia is quite a bit bigger, but doest look to be as hilly certainly from where we are. The town itself is made up of two parts, the old part which was a walled town perched on the top of a hill, and then as the town has grown in Importance it has spread outwards,  and now is quite a large urbanisation. Our first project was to find a tat shop, to get the memorabilia for this leg of our trip, and with it being a Sunday I a mainly Catholic country, we thought that could have been a bigger problem thhsn it turned out to be. As we only arrived here at 12 noon we then opted to try out one of the local restaurants, I tried a frid fish platter and grilled veg, and Perdita had mashed potato and mint ravioli and a side salad.  After lunch we headed up to the walled old ...

 Today's port of call is Napoli(Naples). When we booked the cruise, there was no room left on the excursion we really wanted to do, which was Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius, so we booked onto the the trip to Herculaneum Instead, but as soon as we got onto the boat we headed up to destination services, to see if there was any chance we could swap,(we didn't hold out much hope, but if you don't ask you don't get) but a few days into the cruise we had a letter pushed under our cabin door, explaining there has been some cancellations, and we had been swapped over.  The site at Pompeii is huge and our guide for the day Salvatori(Sal) took us around the what he considered to be the most important parts of the sites, the theatre, the amphitheatre, the forum, the basilica, one of the best preserved Roman dwellings, and a couple of the temples to a couple of their gods. Sal was obviously very passionate about the history behind the place and went into great details about what life w...