Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Oh the weather outside is lovely

50 Degrees, sun, lemon trees, palm trees, a calm sea, a little breeze.  Such a nice day ... did I say sun?

Via Bagnoli, Napoli.
The border between Pozzuoli and Napoli.
 The sea from Bagnoli.  Very calm today.

Luggage Recovered!

Our luggage caught up to us Monday night.  And there was great rejoicing.
Seriously, I've never seen a person so happy to get their luggage back.

Nothing missing, but it had been obviously opened and looked through, presumably by customs, to verify our custom declarations made at the lost luggage counter.

Signed, the anti-duck.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Alitalia 1 - Luggage 0

Got to Napoli yesterday (Sunday).  No sign of suitcases.  Alitalia was on top of the problem:  they called out Dick's surname on the PA as we were walking up to the luggage carousel.  Looks like our bags missed the FCO - NAP flight.  They're supposed to be sent on to us by courier today.  No one hold their breath please.

Sunday was a very short day.  Because we left CMH so late in the day, we also got to NAP very late, and by the time we waited for luggage that didn't arrive, and took the Ali Bus and the Metro line2 to get to our hotel, it was already 16:00 and getting dark.  Temperature about 47.

We both slept badly first night here. Crashed 10pm, woke up around 3am, stayed up until 6am, and then tried to sleep again.  I slept some and got out of bed at 9.

Today's supposed to be much warmer than yesterday.