. Eight journeys abroad. nt over to the Vittoria Hotel for afternoon tea, sat out of doors in the sun, not a scrap of wind, and growing about us forget-me-nots, pansies, frisia, cowslips, banana and palm and pepper trees, acacia, camellias and oranges and lemons; then on the tiled terrace hanging over the sea, far up above the Marina or landing. It is certainly a heaven on earth, it is impossible to imagine greater beauty and we are wonderfully favored, so far, in having nothing but brilliant sunshine, and hoping for a perfect day to-morrow to go on to Amalfi and Ravello. We landed last Tuesda
. Eight journeys abroad. nt over to the Vittoria Hotel for afternoon tea, sat out of doors in the sun, not a scrap of wind, and growing about us forget-me-nots, pansies, frisia, cowslips, banana and palm and pepper trees, acacia, camellias and oranges and lemons; then on the tiled terrace hanging over the sea, far up above the Marina or landing. It is certainly a heaven on earth, it is impossible to imagine greater beauty and we are wonderfully favored, so far, in having nothing but brilliant sunshine, and hoping for a perfect day to-morrow to go on to Amalfi and Ravello. We landed last Tuesday morning. Fortunately, I had 615 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD telegraphed for rooms and the nian who met us at the dockhad my name on his Hst. To my surprise, they have built stone docks at Naplessince we were here last, and we docked at once without soon as we had lunch (and the food tasted like ambrosiaafter that on the ship) we took cabs and went to the museumand spent an hour; then up to San Martino which was as. SOLFATARA lovely as ever, and then up in a lift to the Berlolini Hotelwhere we had tea, sitting on a terrace and having a gloriousview and sunset, with singing and playing by native musiciansin costume. Then w^e came back and down to the Grand Hotelagain and had a perfect dinner. The next day we spent the morning in Naples over ourtrunks and resting and took lunch early and went in a landau,for the whole afternoon, out through the new grotto, throughthe hill of Posilipo, over to Solfatara, Pozzuoli, where wewent to see the Amphitheatre, a splendid ruin, with a piece 6i6 ITALY of the Appian way leading up to it, and to the Lerapeum, aperfectly beautiful ruin half under water, which by an erup-tion of Solfatara, was let down under the water and when theMonte Novo was created by an earthquake hundreds of yearsafter, it was raised up again, but has sunk a metre in the lasthundred years. Then we went on to Baise and returned by Lake Avernusand Grotto of the Cumaean
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