The road trip through Italy gets into the last phase — riding with the car back to the North of Italy. Do I feel ready to leave the South? Not so much. I have to schedule one more trip to discover the rest of the Italian South. But the road trip is planned, hotels are booked. Time to hit the road. Maybe it was too grandiose plan. Maybe I should have planned it differently.
The driving time was around 6 hours, but it was not bad at all. Except for the 2 hour drive from Naples to Rome. The driving experience was so unique that I decided to write an entire post on how to drive in Italy, and not get crazy.
Naples was gloomy on the departure day. I still blame myself for that. But once I left Naples, the sun started to make its way through the rain-soaked clouds. It was a nice panoramic ride. I made gazillion pictures of the mountains that looked like somebody sugared their tops. Travelling through Italy in the off-season means that you cannot have a swim in the Mediterranean sea. It is too cold. But, nothing prevents you from having a break by the seaside.
And from having a delicious meal in one of the sea front restaurants with the catch of the day. I planned this stop to be in Civitavecchia. Partly, because it was roughly in the middle of the trip.
I arrived in the nap time period. Although this city is buzzing during summer, it was not dead in winter either. Finding a restaurant took me around 10 minutes. I had a great pasta with shrimps. It was very windy and cold, but it was a perfect stop. By the way, I lived in the myth that the beaches are sandy in Italy. Not in Civitavecchia. There they are just as I like them — with little pebbles. Surely a place that would make a great holiday spot.
