One last day before we head back to Rome to fly home. I can’t believe the trip is coming to an end.

We have nothing planned for the day except packing up and eating and drinking yesterday’s grocery haul. We had our usual breakfast of eggs, pancetta and toast. I got the toast a little too crunchy this morning but we managed to finish it all anyway.

All but Faye and I decided to attempt the closed path into town. The concrete had set in the parts they had done so they thought it was passable. Jeff had gone down earlier and found a way over the rocks, under the bridge then up on the retaining wall over the unfinished parts. After breakfast they headed out. I considered it but couldn’t get motivated and decided to stay with faye and open a bottle of Prosecco.

The group wasn’t gone long. Other than some bars and restaurants there wasn’t much at the pier and the hike up to the town was long and no sidewalks. So turns out the adventure wasn’t much more than the walk. I do wish it had been open so that we could have gone in for dinner but it worked out.

For lunch we made some sandwiches and had lunch outside on the terrace. We had a little bit more wine and discussed our favorite parts of the trip.

The hot tub was finally warm enough to use but no one wanted to get their bathing suit wet so we ended up not using it. we all needed to pack up and some of took a nap so it was a lazy afternoon.

It took me a while to get my bag down to a manageable weight to make it up the 107 steps to the street. My back pack had to pull a bit more weight and the new bag I bought in Sorento was packed up with all my treasures to be carried on the plane.

I did finally take some photos of the villa and the stairs.

Dinner was pretty simple with spaghetti. We had tomato sauce and a little Parmesan left. There was also pancetta so we fried that up to crumble on the top. We did have mozzarella’s and tomatoes so we had a nice caprese salad to accompany our meal. I was disappointed that we couldn’t easily get into town but I did enjoy cooking and eating in the villa.

We finished all the wine and prosecco but not all the alcohol we bought to make Negronis and the limoncello. We had enough bread and meat to make sandwiches so I did that before heading to bed. I thought we might need them after Pompeii and turns out I was right.

It was sad to wrap up our last real stop on the trip. Tomorrow will be busy with the drive and the stop at Pompeii but we will just be staying at a hotel out at the airport so I don’t think it will be the same.