We went to Protaras for the first time in 2015, Cyprus, along with the Greek Cypriot people, were one of the most pleasant experiences ever for me, I'll definitely be back.
That is where we go, been many times and we never get tired of it. Changed a lot over the years but is a really nice resort.
Went to that museum a while back. Unless they were doing renovations, it resembled a scrap yard or recycled building materials yard. An embarrassment of riches in inverse proportion to the funds allocated by the State to store them. Hope it's changed since then. The Camorra are mainly in the based in the suburbs and leave the petty street crime to the teenage scugnizzi on their mopeds, while they focus on waste disposal and recycling scams. The Nazis could not get a foothold in Napoli, too densely populated and the people too hostile, not enough rooms for tanks to drive through the labyrinth of streets.
Get up to Anacapri and take the chairlift up Mount Solaro. Quiet, peaceful and the most perfect views. Vesuvius, Sorrento, Amalfi. See Naples and die.
Cheers Doc. yeah cos we are going in April, a lot of Yosemite is inaccessible. We cant drive west to east, so have to go down to Bakersfield and back up though Death Valley which is a pain. Apparently a lot to see south Yosemite though. Do you recommend Grand Canyon? Got a few days at Vegas with family, so not sure we want to waste a day. May wait and then decide when we get there. One of our thoughts was we'd see enough landscape in Yosemite and DV. but you think its still worth it. Regretting we've given ourselves a tight schedule now, but its the first few weeks of my annual leave year so scimped on it.
Did all of the above except the diving 3 years ago. Everything specific you've mentioned is brilliant, although as Blampers said the museum is a bit tired with parts still closed due to very long term earthquake damage, but some of the stuff in it is incredible. However the city can be bloody scary. It's certainly the scariest place I've ever taken my children by choice. When we were waiting for the train out it ended up with me and my missus stood back to back on the platform so none of the low-grade wannabe Camorra who were casing the rest of the punters could have her handbag. I also didn't bother taking photos outside the cathedral cos I was worried someone would do me over for the camera. And the huge pile of old style CRT tellies rotting on the pavement outside the historic town hall was a bit odd too. This year it's Florence for the second time, but the first with the kids, for us, with a visit to Siena during the Palio thrown in for good measure.
I was me on about the diving. Sea temp around 15 at the moment, which is just too cold to enjoy a leisurely brimble around wearing a semi dry suit. We spent a couple of hours in Pompeii when on a cruise and I would love Herculaneum. When we visited Pompeii we walked around by ourselves and some random bloke came up and asked if we wanted to see some of the "not open" areas. He produced a big set of keys, took us through a gate and we followed him around for about 20 minutes. Just us trasping around buildings that were fenced off. We gave him 20 euros and it was worth every penny. Went to Corsica after that. Nice.
Long may it continue - I love driving up the A1, getting to Scotch Corner and seeing the holiday traffic bearing left for The Lakes (lovely place but busy) while we continue on to the quiet places north of Morpeth!
If you want a change from the crowds in Florence hop on a bus up to nearby hill town of Fiesole, Roman ruins and views back to Florence and overlooks Firorentina's ground.
Brilliant. I'll look out for it thank you. Although in terms of busyness after expecting it to be heaving the last time we were there I didn't find it to be too bad in August. I think it's because the locals who don't work in the tourist industry tend to go away then leaving it a bit quieter for the rest of us. Still I'm sure we'll be looking for some time away from the peak time day tripper crowds at some point, so bus trip it is
Yeah really looking forward to Herculaneum. Been reading about how the people here were subject to much hotter pyroclastic surges than further away Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted. Hundreds of skeletons were found in the boat sheds on the beach, at first people thought they had been murdered because of serious skull fractures, newer science revealed the gases passing over them were so hot, their brains boiled and popped their skulls open. Just hope Vesuvius behaves herself lol.
