Italia

- Day 1 -
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Set off at 3am in the morning(after getting to bed at about 12:30am) to get to the Heathrow airport. My flight left at 6am heading for Milan, the capital of the fashion world. Unfortunately I was only going there to catch a plane to Naples.

Once I'd arrived at Naples I jumped on the bus to Sorrento. It was quite a nice drive around the coast, past Pompei and Vesuvius, seeing a sunbed littered coastline. It's as if every flat piece of coastline, whether beached or not, is an appropriate place to soak up the rays.

Once I arrived in Sorrento I had a little wander around then went to sample some Italian coffee, Italian style - Short, and dark(different to how I normally have my coffee - sweet and blonde). By 4pm I found another bus to take me to Masse Lubrense. Once I arrived in the town my Villa was only a short walk from the town centre down the hill toward the Marina.

My room was quite standard and what I would've expected of a villa and the view was spectacular. After I got settled I wandered down to the Marina(10mins) and walked along the shore then enjoyed some of the local cuisine.






- Day 2 -
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Today was my relax day. So after a late rise I sat by the pool for a bit, and even put my feet in and read a bit of a book. Later in the day I wandered down to the marina to see amazingly tanned bodies scattered on every possible rock, walkway, pier and sunbed possible. So I joined them for a little while, however after the guy next to me started complaining about the glare I put my top back on.

Had a great meal this evening in a restaurant that overlooked the hills and the ocean, amazing vistas.




- Day 3 -
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After an early rise I met a boat down at the marina to take me across to Capri. The journey went around part of the island to see a huge cliff which some king-type person used to throw people off. Nice. The driver then took the boat through a stone arch in the water which was quite cool and out the other side to see boats. Now these are the type of boats I like, SuperYachts. 130ft, sleek, room for the speedboat a few jetskis, cinema, grand piano, bowling alley. Boys toys! I got of our mini boat here and took a bus into Capri centre. This place was packed with tourists and quite a contrast from my little village. It was quite interesting wandering around and seeing all these really old streets littered with Armani, Zegna, Prada etc. boutiques.



- Day 4 -
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My morning today was again spent relaxing by the pool. After I'd done enough of that I ventured into Sorrento - 20 minutes on the bus. Again this was another place that obviously the tourists love. They were everywhere and mostly American. I just wandered around endless small streets with touristy shops(not the expensive types like Capri though). The cliff edge was quite nice here, overlooking the bronze body laden sunbeds and the bay, with boats. After sitting down at by the water for a bit I ventured back into town to find a restaurant for some food. The hospitality was seriously lacking in this place compared to my local restaurants in Masse. There was no love with this bunch. I was tempted to walk out an find somewhere a little friendlier but cos I was hungry I decided to just order and eat and leave.



- Day 5 -
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Last day today. After checking out I went into Sorrento and sat around for a bit, then headed to Naples, sat around some more, then caught my flight back to England. End of Holiday.

There are some more photos but they're still in my camera

- Day 6 -
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Back to normal life. To earn money. So I can buy these things:
1. A 130ft Superyacht, with room for a skiboat and numerous jetskiis, indoor cinema, several bedrooms:
Here's one for sale
2. Just a little kickabout to get out to the yacht:

3. This house was out on the point at the Marina della Lobra:
Perfect place to set up my studio.
One last look at Marina della Lobra and Masse Lubrense
And from the sky:

The Empire strikes

Finally after months of waiting I got to hand my tickets over at the door of The Empire in Shepherds Bush to see The Cat Empire. As we were walking up to the venue we walked straight past Felix(lead singer) just standing in the alley at the side. After support from an American group called some name I can't remember the Empire came on to a mass of cheers with Australian accents. I reckon more than 3/4's of the audience were Australian and most of them were from Melbourne. For anyone who's seen them live you'll know that they are such an awesome band to watch, energy, noise, jumping, swaying, so much you don't get on their CD. Nic came along not quite knowing what to expect and I think was sufficiently impressed. So much so she tried to get tickets to the Sunday night gig aswell. All in all it was a great night. Can't wait to move to London.

Here are some dodgy pics I took on my phone:

Ahhh, to be sure to be sure

Went to Dublin this weekend to visit Sarah. The trip started off really well with me running onto the plane almost just as they were closing the door. The main cause was a 40 minute wait in a queue at Luton airport with an incompetent Airline ticket checker and a very bad queue choice by me. Although most of the people in the queue were smart enough to change queues I persisted and thought no as soon as I change the other queue will speed up. Stupidly I stuck it out which made me very late. I then had to go through security where instead of the 6+ normal checkins they had 1!

So anyway, I got to Dublin finally then got on a bus, which I eventually found out was the wrong one and ended up on the wrong side of Dublin. Slightly fed up with the bus, I got off, jumped in a taxi and got it to drop me off where Sarah was meeting me at about midnight.

The next day we wandered into and around Dublin town. It's quite a nice town with nothing really standout wow-like touristy but St Stephens Green and the main shopping street were quite nice places. We sat, chatted, drank coffe etc etc. then saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. However to the disappointment of the fans of the original the Oompa Loompa song was missing.

Sunday we went to a hurling match. Quite a strange game which is layed out a little like Aussie rules but they have a small ball(baseball size) and bats(like hockey sticks with bigger hitting parts). It was quite entertaining and pretty agressive in parts. For those who care Tipperary beat Galway. Go Galway!!

After some more sitting around and chatting I got back to MK about midnight on the Sunday. It was really good to see Sarah and checkout Dublin aswell.