Howdy Doody and welcome to Episode 42 of my podcast. The view from the crow's nest. And today is the first time, it's such a rarity that it's the first time in every one of these daily podcasts for the first time and at least 42 days that I took a day off, and didn't do any work today, had a day off with the family. So this morning we went on a glass bottomed boat around the Bay of Ischia Pantera so if you don't know, I'm currently staying on an island Ischia in Italy just off the bat Naples, and it's the island where my wife's from so we stay with my mother in law. And we wanted to have a day out but my wife grew up here we've been here together. 20 times at least. So we kind of know the island pretty well. But we managed to find something new that we hadn't done before and this was a glass bottom boat. So there's a lot of archaeological heritage to the island. And there was this, these guys who have put together like an audio visual presentation with an archaeological reconstruction video and in Rome and then you go and get on a glass bottom boat and they take you to an area of the bay that's got boys around it or boys whatever, however you pronounce it from the archaeological museum in Naples, and you know other boats are allowed in there. And under the water you can see, you know, archaeological stuff skins. So on old Roman villas and stuff like that that were down there. So that was really really cool, we saw something new there. And then the boat, because a little bit across the bay to start very big Bay to the castle. So, iski is most famous or prominent landmark and tourist attraction probably is the Paragon AZ castle castella agonism, which is a very spectacular. Well castle and buildings, that's built on top of a with cliffs and the rock. That is just apart from the island so it's its own island basically and it's it's really spectacular to look at how we look on the internet. In fact there is actually a camera, an HD camera project that's all over the world where they instal HD cameras. Static cameras that are just facing one place. And you can see things like, and they're all live so you can see things like some Marks Square Venice or New York or whatever and one of them, focuses on the air organising castle. So if you really want to see it you can see it from that. But anyways, so we took the kids on the boat this morning and that was great. And then we got off that we came back to the quick bit of shopping and then Mina had her first offer first class of a workshop we'd signed her up to. So again if you don't know we are world schoolers, which means we homeschool whilst travelling, and we're now trying to find certain workshops and things that Mina might be interested in that she can do online. And so she started one on space today which you really really liked that was good, we got back in time for that. Then we had lunch, and then we went back out to the castle itself. And the last time we'd been in the castle was about 12 years ago something like that. And this was the first time with the kids. And as I say it's a, you know, it's a it's a lot of steps is a lot of climbing the whole day is basically climbing. So I had a look later we did seven and a half, kilometres of walking but that doesn't include the continuous up and down, up and down to how high it is but 100 200 metres I guess I don't know exactly, but it's pretty high. And me, that means she's seven and a half nearly eight so it wasn't a problem for her, but Leonardo. Not quite three and a half, or no he's about three and a half now. And he nailed it the whole day it was really really good he didn't do anything complain he didn't you know you find absolutely fine. So that was really cool because apart from the fact that the kids really enjoyed it was the fact that one, we now know that you know we can do walks in the country or something like that because Leonardo is totally Up, up to it. And we kind of thought anyway but you know this was a good provi
