Salvatore covers the wet half of the island: the six beaches, the trip around the coast, the bridge to Vivara and everything done with your feet in the water. His is the byline on the pages where the real question is not "how beautiful is it" but "how do I get there with two children, a parasol and a cool bag".
That is why his entries almost always start with access. No road reaches the Chiaia and the stairway is long: sources say 182 steps or 186, so he writes "about 180" and warns you that the climb back at three in the afternoon is the part people misremember. At Ciraccio he tells you what time the maestrale gets up. Where beach-club prices are not published — and on this island they almost never are — he says so and sends you to ask on the sand, rather than inventing a figure.
He applies the same rule to boat trips: what the operator claims is reported as the operator's claim, ratings built on a handful of reviews are kept apart from ratings built on hundreds, and a trip with a poor score is described as having one. For Vivara he repeats the thing that infuriates people who turn up unprepared: entry is by pre-booked guided visit only, Mondays are closed, and in flip-flops they will not let you up. He walks the beaches again at the start and end of the season, when the lidos go up and come down, because that is where information ages fastest.