We are now nearing the end of our cruise as this week comes to an end. We are finding this a long week as we are more than ready to come home now. Twenty-one days is definitely too long to be on a cruise ship from our perspective. It starts to lose its lustre after the first two weeks and some of the things done on the ship is repeated again as most people travel only two weeks. So needless to say we are looking forward to coming home on Saturday. We are a bit worried about disembarking the ship in Venice as we have been told that there will be eight cruise ship docking in Venice on Saturday so they are warning everyone about how busy it will be there as there will be people disembarking and new people coming on the ships, so we are talking thousands of people!! We are very happy that we had arranged for the ship to make our arrangements to get us to the airport as taxis and other modes of transportation are going to be very hard to find and there could be long waits.
Well, back to our ports of call since Rome, we arrived in Naples on Monday and we were not impressed at all. Most people took excursions to Sorrento, Pompeii or the Almalfi coast which was a smart choice if they did. Naples itself was a very dirty city, not well taken care of and very dingy; we did not feel safe there at all and we ended up walking up a narrow lane and got a bit lost after trying to find our way back and we were both feeling very vulnerable being obvious tourists and this was definitely not the tourist part of town and more where the people actually live here. We finally found our way back and the rest of the day just stayed on the ship!
This is a picture of the city as we walked off the ship. It didn’t look too bad from here! Traffic though was horrendous and they had warned us on the ship to be very careful of traffic, in particular, the scooters. Apparently here, the scooters can knock you down and then steal from you, so that worried us as we walked around as they were right about the scooters, they were everywhere coming at you from every direction and we were constantly jumping out of the way.
This was one of the streets we walked up, it looked safe enough at the start!
This is when we realized that we were not in the tourist section of town and were trying to find our way out.
We then decided to just look around the docking terminal and have coffee and pizza and a free wifi connection where we sat to send my Rome blog. We felt very safe here although the pizza wasn’t that great and it probably would have been better to try the pizza in town if only we had felt safe!
On Tuesday we were at sea and travelled around the boot of Italy on our way to Croatia through the Adriatic Sea.
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