day 32, napoli

Yesterday night davide, this dude that works in the hostel cooked us some decent pasta, while having a few beers with people from the hostel. There was 7 of us I think, Nathan, this aussie working the hostel for a month while travelling, me pat and ellie, 2 Swedish girls, flo a brazilian girl, plus davide and his mate who had a punto parked outside and the number plate was 'it 8ooby', which made us childishly giggle in our state and me pat and Nathan posed for a photo, till we realised no one had a camera and we were just on the dirty ground like pricks. We went to this little bar and had some massive shot, not sure what was in it but they weren’t the greatest,so had another and moved onto a piazza, where there was around 500 people, between 15 and 70, all drinking, smoking and chatting. There was a really cool buzz in the place, everyone was really close to each other, there was no fighting, stealing or bitching, it was proper cool. People weren’t bothering people for beer or dope, everyone was just enjoying themselves. We walked back to the hostel in the early morning, feeling pretty merry. Slept like a baby and was woken up by pat shaking my leg for us to go do summat. We set off (me, pat ellie and a not too fresh Nathan) to Sorrento, a hour and bit train ride, which was really pretty but full of rich tourists, then onto amalfi, in search of the cliff diving championships that were taking place. The bus gave us all car sickness, as it was winding up through the hills right next to the cliff. We had a scoot round amalfi which was really pretty, couldn’t find the cliff diving so retired to some rocks (aint paying to get on a beach(!!)) and jumped into the clear blue sea, which was awesome. Got the bus plus train plus metro back to our hostel which was super crowded, then went out to dinner in a nice pizzeria restaurant, which had been going since 1738. Had some amazing bruschetta then a calzone, which was bloody lovely, and great company. I’m hoping to go to bologna tomorrow but at the moment do not have a place to stay, so will give them a call in the morning or stay here for another day. I also hate computers. Ciaox