October holiday, 20 October

We have changed our plans very slightly as we got a discount for various camp sites in a chain and one of them was for Sorrento, so we are going to spend up to 3 nights in this campsite here. We may or may not go into Naples, but probably not; much more likely to go to Pompeii and then have an extra day. As long as it's Sunday again when we cross the Brenner Pass!

First thing today was shopping and diesel. Unlike France and Germany, Italian shops are open on Sundays. The little supermarket was in a residential area, and rather nice, we thought.

In many ways, Italy reminds me of France nearly 50 years ago - the traffic, the petrol pumps on the pavements, human beings in the motorway toll kiosks, and I would have said the lack of out-of-town supermarkets, but we did see a couple on our drive south.

We stopped to have lunch where we could see Monte Cassino,

and then headed down the motorway and then through tunnels and round hairpin bends and goodness knows what all else until we got to this campsite, which has a lovely view over the Bay and City of Naples.

I thought at first it also had rabbits, but turns out they are olives!