First off, the ship has been wonderful. It's Brand New with a giant outdoor Digital Movie screen, Shushi Bar, bars everywhere and Fabulous Food. Today we are off to The Island of Capri, Naples and Sorrento. Oops! Got to go. The tour guide is here. I'll be back!
He's back .. Ok when last I left I was heading out to Pompeii. We piled into a bus with 40 KZST Cruisers on our way to Pompeii, the city destroyed by Mt Vesuvius 2000 years ago. I was expecting a tiny little town but what I saw was the ruins for a city of 20 thousand, and these people knew how to party. Their number one business was Wine production and their number two business was Entertainment. They had more brothels than any other business. In fact every house of "entertainment" had a tiny little penis carved over the door. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be partying in a major city one minute and having the entire mountain next to you explode in a wash of hot ash and fire.
From Pompeii we headed to the most beautiful little town so far, Sorrento. Our tour guide took us on a ride on a tiny little two-lane road carved in the side of a 500-foot high sheer cliff over the ocean. In Italy they really don't have any rules of the road, so they make Sonoma County drivers look refined and polite. Imagine a sheer cliff with barely two lanes. Now imagine two huge tour busses heading in opposite directions so close that their mirrors almost touch. Now put a guy on a vespa scooter going as fast as he can, between the two buses and behind him is a little Italian car thinking he can make it too.
Sorrento is a quaint little town of great shops and places to eat. Vendors selling Gelato (Italian ice cream) and pizza restaraunts are everywhere. Mary's has nothing to worry about; the Italian pizza is more like a flour tortilla with tomato sauce and cheese. Its great, but I wanted to take them to Mary's for a TOTOs special and say."Now that's a Pizza" !
We lunched in a tiny café with accordions playing, just like a post card. For those wondering about the price of the dollar in Europe, the Euro (same as the dollar in the US) is worth about 60 cents. Not too big a deal unless you are buying lots of designer name purses. I don't think my 10 thousand dollar budget is going to be enough.
Off we went to the Isle of Capri and my goal was to buy purses. Prada, Gucci, Fendi, Furla, Dolce and Gabana, the shop keepers in Capri loved me. We will start uploading photos as we get them to download. Sonoma County, you are going to love what we at KZST have planned with the purses I am bringing back to the US.
By the way.. I am going to try to upload a photo taken at the Prada store. the guy in the pink suit looks familiar.
Well that's it for now
Caio
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