Seven stops down from Sorrento on the Circumvesuviana brings you to Castellammare and the cable-car stop is within the railway station. The ride to the top of the mountain is spectacular; the slopes are almost entirely wooded, though you catch glimpses of the narrow winding road to the summit as you ascend.
Amongst the pleasures at the top is the fact that the elevation and the tree cover mean that it is lovely and cool for walking. The other pleasure is that it is quiet - during our two hour plus walk, we saw only two people. The paths are not particulalry well marked but you would have to be a pretty useless navigator to get lost. There is little wildlife to be seen, apart from a few birds and beutiful butterflies. Perhaps we were not looking in the right places or maybe it was siesta time. What's the Italian for siesta?
We did see sheep grazing perilously close to the edges of vast vertical drops and a mountain shepherdess, with Vesuvio in the background.
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