Position: 41°12’57″N 13°34’23″E Gaeta is glorious. Spring has sprung and everything is sun, sand and beaches. Wandering the hills brings us across rallies of cyclamen, rhubarb purple and dappled by the overstory. Anticipating the hot summer ahead, bright African daisies …
Position: 41°12’57″N 13°34’23″E A couple of weeks ago Italy’s Prime Minister resigned and the government collapsed. In the middle of the pandemic. Everyone locally appeared singularly apathetic. Unused to Italian political affairs and coming off the back of an insurrection …
Position: 41°12’57″N 13°34’23″E The Plan What better way to ring in the beginning of a new year than with friends, good food, and plenty of prosecco? There is none. We heralded 2021 with Robin and Bob (our in-bubble dock mates) …
Position: 41°12’57″N 13°34’23″E Among its many charms as a port city, Gaeta really pushes out the boat when it comes to Christmas decorations. Not satisfied with hanging stars and wreaths in ever-shifting combinations of red, green and blue, at some …
Position: 41°12’57″N 13°34’23″E Kodachrome In a world rife with misinformation, it is easy to forget all the crap you learned in grade school. Take for instance John Cabot. The famous English explorer. Bankrolled by Henry VII he is credited with …
Yeah, I’m the taxman Pity the errant British circumnavigator. When they buy their boat they have the pleasure of paying Value Added Tax to Her Majesty’s treasury. A princely 20% of its purchase price. Having parted with significant wads of …
Position: 41°15’45″N 13°44’46″E Cat Sitting For the past couple of weeks we have been cat sitting in Minturno. All three of us. Marlon, ever the charmer, has learned to live with cats. More or less. In his youth, he paid …
Position: 40°44’58″N 13°54’28″E Ischia’s most recent claim to fame is as a backdrop to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series of novels. Her characters escape Napoli’s summer heat for fun and frolics on Ischia’s famous beaches. Having avoided Naples, literary tourism was …
Position: 40°45’38″N 14°01’47″E Never far off the grid, it was clear from news reports things were heating up Covid-wise in Italy. Mafia incited ‘No more lockdown!’ riots added more, albeit unnecessary, justification to our decision to avoid Naples. Thick, brown …
