Mi Manchi, Alpi Eagles

As you know if you have read my last couple of Posts, I go down to the Amalfi Coast a bunch of times every year, which means somehow getting to Naples. Sometimes I take the train, sometimes I fly. The train is annoying. It takes about 7 hours, and I have to change in either Bologna or Rome. If I am lucky the first train is on time and so I don't miss the second one. When I get to Naples I either take the hot, dirty, and slow Circumvesuviana to Sorrento, then wait for a bus to Positano. There are about 16 million people who do the same thing, which of course makes the whole journey horrible, and that's if the roads are open. If the roads are closed, I recommend swimming from Sorrento to Positano. If my schedule coincides with a ship, I pay for a taxi or take the bus to the port, where I get one of the two or three ships that goes to Posi. Both of these processes take forever, and since train prices have gone up recently, it made more sense to fly. It would all be a bit better if there were more connections in that area, but more connections might mean more tourists, and I dont want that either. So...

AlpiEagles is the name of the low-cost airline that flew from Venice to Naples. I could usually get a round trip ticket for 100 euro. Alitalia, in order to compete, kept its prices low too. Well now, AlpiEagles has gone out of business, so Alitalia has hiked up its prices and I'm sh*t out of luck, as my grandma would say. Round trip tickets are about 250 euro, but hey, the train costs 150.. Ridiculous. UFFA!!!