Arriving safe and sound (except for one cracked lens cover) back at Ischia's Porto. Its faro guides us in. Mt Epomeo rises 800m just behind. A couple months prior, its slopes had experienced a terrible mudslide. People lost their lives. One of our taxi driver's elderly in-laws barely escaped, but lost everything. We were told differing reasons as to the cause, from unenforced municipal buildings laws to a simple act of Mother Nature--she always bats last. *next: the Aragonese Castle