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The Two P's
On Tuesday we visited Italy's top tourist attraction, Pompeii. Over 2.3 million people visit the ruins each year. Pompeii was destroyed by lava from Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. Most people would expect that everyone died in Pompeii, not so, only two thousand of the twenty thousand population died.
What this tragedy did was to preserve life as it was at that time. It is extremely easy to get to, as we arrived by train from Sorrento and joined many tourists from ...
Clinging to the Cliffs in Amalfi
... hill (or the other way around from where we got dropped off by the bus). The streets are absolutely charming; they wind their way through town, lined with tons of adorable shops doing brisk business, and even have some greenery weaving its way overtop in certain sections. We slowly wandered the streets, popped in to visit the church, and then made our way down to a cafe by the beach for a drink while admiring the happening harbour scene. ...
Ashes to Ashes
... the most moving was one that looked as though it had been screaming.(no photo) (in the vast majority of them, grimaces of agony of varying degrees are noticeable)
Anyway, going from death to the opposite end of the spectrum, we eventually reached the brothel. It was fairly small, we figure the really rich could hire their own, er, personal slaves, so this was maybe for the more every day ...
The Amalfi Coast and Paestum
... ones for spaghetti sauce,medium ones for eating, and the large ones for salsa.The list of crops grown here seemed to go on and on.
Our next major stop was in_Amalfi itself, where we realized that we were taking more pictures than we expected, so we picked up more memory for our camera. We also found a few souvenirs (and of course gelato). We also saw more churches. (We have been getting into the habit of checking out the churches. They often have art ...
1152. A Classy Finish to a Long Day (Italy 129)
... I guess "reaching out" to the next generation which no longer feels the appeal of boring church masses… This is something I would expect to see in the USA where all kinds of strategies are used to make religion a bit more “hip” for the next generation… but not here in Italy—interesting sight though.
And with that, I head back to Napoli where I enjoy a very well deserved, warm night’s ...