On Thursday we headed off to Vesuvius, now my dad, a geologist, had said not much to see, not worth the bother but even with those low expectations it was underwhelming, it was cold, damp, visibilty was about 3m, crater, what crater?! (deja vu Ben Nevis!) Tourist tat, tick, one loo per hundred visitors (people exiting looked like they'd been in the bowels of hell), tick, surley entrance staff, tick. Got a free Limoncello though! In the afternoon we dodged (not succesfully) the showers and trekked up three thousand (ahem, roughly) steps to Castel Sant'Elmo and were rewarded with fabulous views over Naples. On the return trip we stumbled on the Maradona Mural where the atmosphere was vibrant and good humoured, definitely a pilgrimage for some.
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