From Salerno to Ponza Island and the River Tiber

The journey continues........

After dropping off Harry, Eimile, Cat and Chris in Salerno town to catch the train to Naples, we then went back out into the bay to anchor for the night. 

We watched as four fire planes worked continually to pick up sea water and drop it onto one of the many fires we saw along the coast. 

The fire plane flies out of the smoke to collect yet another pick up of water. 

We sailed back to the island of Procida but this time we anchored on the south coast off the main town. Here we met up with Wolfgang and Ursula again.

This is the view of the colourful town looking back down from the castle.

Interesting skyline seen from the castle. 

The main church in town.

Part of a town model in the museum.

A close up showing the amazing detail created in the model. 

Bloomers and other artefacts in the house museum.

Wolfgang, Dave and Ursula on the way back down to town.

I love this quaint, quirky house we passed on the road back to the harbour.

Serenity and Pruveda in the distance.

Procida town is where they filmed The Talented Mr Ripley which we then watched and spotted familiar places. 

Back to the coast on the mainland and we spotted this strange building set into the cliffs. Not the best place for a lighthouse but not sure what its purpose was.

On to the town of Gaeta for supplies, fuel and laundry.

Dinner with the Swiss before going our separate ways. Really hope we can meet up with them again later in the year.

Another very colourful town - this time Ponza on the beautiful island of the same name.

We anchored in this bay and, in the evening, took the dinghy round the corner to a beach cafe for a bite to eat. On the way over we had passed a film crew filming people on another boat. After having ordered our food the whole film crew and cast came into the cafe. They fitted the owner/cook/waitress with a microphone and asked if we would mind if she served us with two local speciality dishes while they filmed and interviewed her. This they did and then this lovely old chap called Oswald Drinkwater (not a very Italian name) interviewed us. He told us it was for a documentary about areas of Italy which he had been doing for 39 years. It was due to be aired in August but we didn't get to see it!

We were then served with the meal we had originally ordered so we did rather well that night!

The cemetery and caves outside the town of Ponza.

Strange rock formations along the coast of Ponza. We would have loved to stay longer on the island but it is very small and, with bad weather coming in, firstly from the west and then at midnight due to turn to the east, there was nowhere to shelter.

We reached the River Tiber in good time and so decided to anchor in an unfinished marina just round the corner from the river entrance. These are the huge fishing nets they lower down from the huts.

Serenity then stayed at Technomar boatyard, rafted alongside other boats on the riverside while we returned to the UK.