One week with Albertours on the Costa Amalfitana for winner

Albertours will be taking the winner of the new word game series starting today on a tour of the Costa Amalfitana.

The winner will also get a Lm50 MIA shopping voucher from the tax free centre and a year's membership in the Scrabble Club.

The Costa Amalfitana tour, between October 14-21, visits Vico Equense, Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi, Capri, Naples, Pompeii, Vesuvius, Caserta and Monte Cassino.

It leaves Malta in the morning on a direct flight to Rome where a coach will be waiting for the group to take it to the south of Italy, arriving late afternoon at the hotel in Vico Equense, one of the various small seaside resorts of the Costa Amalfitana.

On the second day, there will be an optional full day excursion of the Costa Amalfitana, one of the most beautiful coasts of Italy.

The Amalfitana Coast is situated between Sorrento and Salerno and is characterised by fantastic landscape. The historic city of Sorrento, the seaside resort of Positano with its little streets and staircases, and Amalfi, at the centre of the coast, will be visited.

On the following day, those on tour will be able to take an optional excursion to Naples starting with a panoramic city tour, including Piazza Plebiscito, Maschio Angioino, Castel Nuovo, Galleria Umberto I, Palazzo Municipale, Palazzo Reale, Castel Dell'Ovo and the Lungomare.

On day four, there will be an optional excursion to the Vesuvius, probably the most famous and most studied volcano in the world, and the remains of Pompeii, one of the most famous archaeological sites.

Pompeii was destroyed in 79 AD by an eruption of the Vesuvius which buried the whole town and its inhabitants.

Day five will offer an optional full day excursion to Caserta and the Abbey of Monte Cassino, one of the most famous holy places of Roman Catholicism in Italy.

This monastery was founded in 529 by St Benedict. It is where the saint drew up a complete and precise set of rules combining intellectual study and manual labour with the virtues of chastity, obedience and poverty.

The optional excursion on the following day is to Capri, which used to be the most famous imperial isle and is one of the most visited places in the world.

The day before the tour returns to Malta will be left for relaxation.

The correct nine letter words in the series which ended last Saturday are: savourily or variously, whaleboat, galvanise, propeller, workforce and deprecate.