Hi all

The train to Napoli took about 4 hours and then I had to travel to a smaller town Castalamarra by yet another train. The hotel I was going to stay in for 3 night was in a little town Pimonte up on the hill named Hotel Saint Angelo.

The manager was kind enough to arange a collect from the station for me, a friend of his collected me, Angelo. The hotel is stunning stunning stunning!!! And ONLY the manager and Angelo speak any english........no I kid you not it was really that bad! So Nikolai the little Italian phrase book was in my hand for 3 solid days, thank goodness for that and here we thought I would have no use for it ;-)

The night I arrived I went to a food festival in the little town of Pimonte with Angelo (who could explain to me in English!) and a couple from Roma. The fest was great, lots of people and lots of food.............o and wine, dont forget the wine!

The fest was all around their 6 best produce in the area:
Baby Marrows
Egg plant
Wine (Red)
Pasta
Cherry Tamatos
Mozorella
Lamb Sausage

I had pasta and loads of good red wine. It was lovely they had a bad there and all.
The guy at the pasta shop gave me 2 bags of raw pasta as he had never met a South African before and was so pleased to see me there! I will have to cook for some of you when back : )

The town of Pimonte has 6,000 people who live there, really is small place but even though the people dont speak english at all they are so friendly!

My room was on the very top floor and had a view of the valley as well as the Gulf of Napoli. Breath taking I must say!

Read more in my next post on my visit to Pompei............O and my thoughts on Italian men!

Take care all
D