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Good Riddance Naples!
We have officially left Naples and our now back in Rome sweet Rome! I still have to tell you about our adventures at Pompeii and Vesuvius yesterday though! The day started out with juice and sugar donuts. Mom didn't feel well at all and almost stayed at the hotel for the day, however she toughed it out and came with us! The tour picked us up from the hotel and drove us all the way to Pompeii to meet up with the rest of the group. We had a great guided ...
The best umbrella I ever bought
Our final day in Rome began much like the last two, cold, grey and rainy. Also, Miss Wigglebum Squirmypants had hogged my side of the bed all night, so I was not willing to spend another day in the rain. Nevertheless, we ventured out. We had planned to visit Appia Antica, the oldest street in Rome (and in fact, the whole Western world) which stretched to the heel of the boot. We found the proper metro station and ...
Doing the Caesar Shuffle
... Navona, the massive Piazza where the near-fountain-drowning occured in Angels and Demons. After people watching in the Piazza for a while, we walked to the Pantheon and ate dinner at a little restaurant called Miscellanea. Listed by Rick Steves as popular with the University crowd, we had plenty of tasty house wine, a massive portion of mixed bruschetta (to die for!), and I had veal with prosciutto, which I coupled with a bit of Tia's ...
Rome the Capital of the World
... Arc of Titus, Temple of Venus, and a dozen other ruins of what used to be ancient Rome.
After this I manage to finally get my way out of the FOrum area and see the remains of the Aquaduct and the Circus MAximus. The Circus is currently getting renovated but you can see the area where the track used to be. Jogers run it now. Also, it said that the Circus is the largest entertainment building ever to be constructed, I assume that was based on the ...
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The non-Catholic Cemetery
The cemetery is outside the old city walls. Large trees shade the graves of those long passed and cats pad silently up and down the paths.
Keats and the close friend who nursed him to the end, Joseph Severn, lie near a wall. They are uncrowded by other stones. Keats wrote his own epitaph:
This grave contains all that was mortal of a ...
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