Napoli - just one cornetto?

The blog has reached Laos, where our friend is currently back-packing, lucky sod. On return he plans to fly out almost immediately to Italy for a job in Naples. Even luckier sod! "Come with me for a few days!" he says in his email. Ah well, yes, maybe, maybe not. It's cheap, that's true, but there are Issues. I may be Eeyore, but I'd be off like a shot. Herself, now, thats different. Tigger she may be, but she is also a Cautious Traveller. Like fine wine and delicate porcelain, the Tigger does not travel well, or lightly. Her ideal trip out of these islands would be for a minimum of six weeks. So nipping off to Naples for a couple of days and an ice cream in the piazza is not really her idea of a proper trip. So. Will it happen? Another cliff-hanger for all you readers out there. It's better than the telly.