Finally crawled through my front door at 4am Monday morning after a long and draining day of travel. Wonderful holiday, though. Crammed a lot in and, although I’d have liked to have taken in a bit more medieval stuff, it was all good crack. Will post some selected highlights at a later date. Below is a nice panorama of the rather spectacular view from my Sorerentine window (Vesuvius to the left on the horizon):
The View
Ciào!
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N/B I recently discovered that the above salutation is in fact derived from a Venetian expression ’s-ciào vostro’ which translates literally as ‘I am your slave’ (s-ciào from schiavo which is, in turn, derived from the latin sclavus). Total submission always makes for such a charming goodbye…
