The journey from the Amalfi coast is a long one because as mentioned it involves buses, ferry and trains . So it's been a tiring day commencing our day at 830am and arriving at our accommodation around 4.00pm.This gentleman you see here in speedos is at the port in Salerno and is there helping out. Quite funny and not an especially pretty sight but anything goes really.
Tomorrow we leave for Dubai and the final few days of our holiday before going home and back to work.
From my perspective as someone whose heritage is Italian, I feel honoured to have had the privilege to finally become acquainted with the birthplace of my parents and sister. Unfortunately, I didn't meet any relatives but maybe another time.
Italy is remarkable in so many ways, it has the antiquity of centuries of history, masterpieces by the world's greatest artists, history everywhere you go and each turn in the road you come across something new that's usually old of course. The coastline is also beautiful.
In general, I found some people friendly and others rude and unhelpful, but that's people anyway. I have enjoyed the challenge in making the effort to speak Italian and I have had several Italians who have said to me that I speak well and that's been a thrill to hear and they also pick me as being Italian. Funnily enough, I have had random people ask me questions in Italian clearly assuming that I am Italian . I think I can fit right in with the locals.
I have no doubt that Italy has issues like all nations but what I did observe is the number of young African men whose status I wonder about and random numbers of people who I suspect are Syrian refugees who are homeless. Some of these people are old, some families some single and this was a situation witnessed across across France and Spain . Don't know what the answer is but it's a sad state of events.
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