DAY 13 - A LAST DAY IN NAPLES

Back in Naples for the day, we couldn't resist another quick tip to the museum, around the mosaics

and peace and quiet in the garden

Via Toledo is an ancient street with elegant buildings

but below ground is far more modern: at 50m deep, the award-winning 2012 Toledo metro station is designed around the themes of water and light (part of the city's network of so-called Metro Art Stations)

The Art Stations, distributed along the lines 1 and 6 of the Metro network, include more than 180 pieces of art created by 90 international authors and by some young local architects, and feature different architectural styles. Besides being beautiful and comfortable, they aim to redevelop the surrounding areas, such as Piscinola, Scampia or Chiaiano, and facilitate the construction of new buildings.
- See more at: http://www.italymagazine.com/news/naples-toledo-metro-station-named-europes-most-impressive-cnn#sthash.e68Taz80.dpuf

DAY 12 : POSITANO TO CASTELLAMMARE

The weather was gorgeous as we drew away from Positano

We stopped for lunch

and being full to bursting with gnocchi didn't stop us taking a last dip off the side 
 

and the afternoon passed quietly as we headed back to the boatyard in Castellammare

 

DAY 11 : CAPRI TO POSITANO

We had the morning on Capri (before pushing off along the Sorrento coast to Positano) so up the hill we went in another little orange bus 

into Capri town - where lemons and limoncello are a tourist 'must'

Not quite enough time for the cablecar but instead a coffee and wander around Anacapri

When we gathered at the waterside, no sign of the quick hop back to the yacht.  Mossy stepped up to the plate, swam over to fetch our dinghy

and was back in a trice

It looked a good idea so we joined in a bit later

As we left Capri, a last view of yet another boat penetrating the Faraglione di Mezzo

on our way eastwards along the coast to Positano

where we climbed the hill, past the church of Santa Maria Assunta with its beautiful majolica dome

eventually settling on a beachside spot for dinner

DAY 10 : ISCHIA TO CAPRI

Impressive rocky headlands on the way into the Marina Piccola on Capri; how do you suppose you reach your front door...  

These beauties are called the Faraglioni: three spurs of rock 

one, the Stella, still attached to the land, the biggest, Scopolo apparently the unique habitat for a blue lizard, and the middle one, Faraglione di Mezzo, with its central cavity, large enough to allow for small boats to pass through (you can just make one out - we didn't risk out boat deposit!)

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Lovely views of the island as we pulled in to find a mooring buoy

and we climbed a weaving path up to the bus-stop (team photo!)

and, at the top, a lovely vista across the bay

and time for a pre-dinner walk.

Pasta all round !

DAY 9 : PONZA TO ISCHIA

After last's night's excitement, a late start but we set out under bright skies 

on more flat blue waters with barely a ripple
 

towards Ischia

the largest island we've seen for a while,

much busier, with many more ferries - sounding their horns and causing swells when they dock next to the marina,

but lovely in the evening sunlight of the longest day, with a great pizzeria from which to enjoy a gorgeous pink sunset!