
We're hauling Used Batteries from PIAC.

It's a coastal trip, but there will be no sea views today.

It really isn't very far in-game from Cassino to Naples.


Naples is a big city, and we're going to leave touring it to the second half of the tour.



Plenty of jobsites around, it seems. Mind you, not all of them are probably active. Maybe it's just scenery.


Nice. But where's our turnoff?

Pozzuoli... pozzolanic materials are named after this famous source of said volcanic material, used by the Romans to great effect as a binder in creating durable and strong concrete, such as was used in the Pantheon in Rome, which has the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world and has been used continuously first as a temple and then as a Catholic church for 2000 years.

OK boomer.
Heyyyy... that's Renzo Piano's Good Volcano shopping mall and leisure centre, the name of which of course refers to nearby Vesuvius.

That's our destination across the road.

Oh, and that's the 'good volcano' itself!


And here they are both together. As I astutely opined on 9th March 2019 on exactly this spot, there's nothing quite like a torrent of molten lava for spoiling an afternoon's shopping, so let's hope Vesuvius is not in a truculent mood right now. I've just got to check out the boutiques before we teleport over to Pescara one last time.

Tesoro Gustoso??!!. What the??!! No, TE Logistica is just before it.. Oof. I thought we were taking the used batteries to a food processing plant for a moment. I was wondering what kind of evil corporate shenanigans were going on there. Imagining the Lidl fake brand Yogurtissimo Italian Style yogurts ''Neapolitan Strawberry'' variety with (mentioned in very very small print with the food colourings) E917 Battery Acid. Of course, Lidl would never do such a thing. Hmm. I wonder what Week it is this week. Haven't been to Lidl for a while. I do enjoy their 'national weeks'. You can come back home with almost anything, from Greek spiral pastries stuffed with salty cheese to Mongolian Clusters cereal.

TE Logistics is a totally kosher place to drop off used batteries, yes indeedy. It just happens to be right next door to TG. No foul play suspected. Never had Lidl's Mongolian Clusters cereal? It's a great way to start your day, I'll tell you.

One last shot from Naples. We'll kick off the second part of the Italy tour in this city in a couple of months, I guess.

Time to start the final journey of Part 1 of the tour - Pescara to Bari.

We're off to IKA Bohag.

Farewell Pescara!

Incredibly, there were no jobs anywhere in Pescara available for Bari, so we hijacked this trailer crammed with 20 tons of Used Packaging.

It's supposed to be going to Ancona and then over the sea to Split, but instead we're taking it to Bari and then over the sea to Durres in Albania.

Someone else can then drive it from Durres to Split, right? It doesn't matter if it's late anyway, it's only Used Packaging, nothing important. They're probably just going to throw it in the trash, or strew it alongside the access road to their local Tesoro Gustosa plant.
It's a long and attractive Autostrada trip down the east coast to Bari, and we'll get cracking on that properly next time.
Cheers!!! Krigl