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Siracusa, Sicily to Naples guest trip
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Siracusa, Sicily to Naples guest trip

September 10, 2013 | Author

The trip did not start well on Saturday 31st August with Georgia and Natasha missing there connection in Rome and Melissa and Hannah arriving on time but with no bags. Luckily there are plenty of flights between Rome and Catania and an hour after planned we were all on our way to Siracusa to join Timoneer. There was a very impressive electrical storm that night and the girls stayed in and caught up. Prior to arriving in Sicily we had gone 99 days without any rain.

Sunday the guests went for a walk around Ortigia, an island with a walled city and connected to mainland Siracusa by a small bridge. They also went to check out the ancient amphitheatre in Siracusa and had the compulsory pizza while in Italy.

It was an early start Monday to head off on a road trip up Mt Etna and a big degustation lunch trying some of the local wines. While they were ashore we moved Timoneer 40 nm up the coast to Riposta. We had hoped to anchor off the stunning town of Taomina but a large swell rolling into the bay put an end to that idea. Instead the guests caught a taxi to Taomina the next day and went exploring, returning to Timoneer for dinner.

Wednesday we headed off up the coast of Sicily past Taomina and through the Messina Strait.  It can get very busy with traffic going through here and you can also get 4 knots of current, whirl pools and rough water  on a calm day. We had a relatively easy transit, timing it so that the tides were not in full force. We continued on to Vulcano Island where the guests were going to climb the volcano for sunset but decided against it and went for a swim instead. The next day was spent relaxing other than trip ashore to go swimming in the hot springs. They decided against that as well as they were not so keen on the sulphur smell.

Friday we cruised past Lipari and Panarea Islands on our way to Stromboli Island. The 4 guests and 4 of the crew headed off on a guided hike to climb the 926m (3038’) active volcano. Unfortunately Melissa was not feeling well and so her and Hannah turned around. The others continued at a forced snail’s pace to the top. They did not make it in time for sunset but on approaching the top the cloud dispersed and they were given a display of red hot magma exploding out of the crater below. Then they had a fun fast decent down a scree slope in the dark and arriving back at the beach at 11pm.

We left Stromboli at first light to start the 12 hour journey to Amalfi. We had the fishing lines out with no luck. We had amazing conditions with flat water and no wind. Two hours out from Amalfi the breeze started to pick up and we had our first sail of the trip. With full main and genoa we were doing 11-12 knots peaking out at 12.5kts. The sea was pretty calm off Amalfi and we anchored and sent the girls ashore to check out the town before dinner. It was a beautiful sunset looking along the Amalfi coast as the lights of the many little villages slowly came on.

Sunday we had breakfast on our way to Positano where the guests went ashore for an hour wandering around the town and then we continued on to Capri. The blue grotto had dozens of people waiting to go in so we went around the north side of the island and anchored amongst the hundreds of other boats for a swim and a relaxing afternoon. We went in to Marina Grande for the night and the guests went up to Capri town for dinner and a walk around.

We left around 10am and the guests had breakfast on our way to Marina di Stabia near Pompeii. They went to Pompeii but were back 3 hours later as it was too hot and crowded. While they were away I got a call from the 3rd airport in 10 days telling me they had found the 2 lost bags. This time the airport was Naples. Finally the bags had caught up with us after being lost in Berlin and going to Rome, then Catania and on to Naples. Just in time to get dressed up for their last dinner. Hannah was so happy to have a choice of clothes that she changed outfits between each course.

The taxi arrived soon after their 6:30am pancakes, blueberries and bacon, to take Melissa and Hannah to the train station to go to Rome. Georgia and Natasha head off to the airport at 12:30pm

We are now getting ready to depart for Palma this afternoon.

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