Fri 5th Acquappesa DAY 13

Safe Napolese bike parking + goose rearing place

We left Napoli at about 9am after retrieving the bike from the shady garage men but they were quite please with their bottle of beer and 30 euros (!) fee for making sure it was safe. We did find this goose parked next to the Goldwing but one that will never lay golden eggs, poor thing.

Getting out of Napoli was less of a hassle than we imagined and we sailed onto the correct autostrada with the aid of SatNav but in our complacency didn’t pay attention and missed the turning onto the second autostrada. This sent poor little SatNav into a spiral of self doubt and we did a silly tour around (and we have no idea were we went for about 15 miles) until we miraculously ended up on the road we should have taken in the first place.

Coastline from Bike - Debbie took this....obviously.

The rest of the day was easy – down to Salerno and onto more scenic roads all along the coast. A journey form Naples to Acquappesa is normally 3 hours or so hammering down the motorway but our little winding roads took us about 8 hours. Splendid scenery and, yes, great corners to swoop around again BUT at one point there was a little notice saying that the road was not very good. WELL (and then sigh) we had to slow down to under 15mph or we would’ve been boinged off the bike. Others didn’t seem to slow down at all and we were still overtaken but after a mile or so it settled back to normal – whatever that means.

The pictures say it all about today.

The road we just rode along.

Got to Acquappesa at about 5pm greeted by Nikki and a cold beer…and a swim in the Med...marvellous and as far south as we are going. 2,250 miles thus far and on Sunday we start the journey home.

Last pic of the day.

....just another picture - pretty usual for today!