Casa Celestino Sant'Angelo

Ola Kala: simply, OK (in Greek). No time for lots of flap.....we're on the go. The Vatican Museums await us (and we can hardly wait to do more walking!). Enjoy the pictures and we'll fill you in on the adventure next time I make the time to sit and gab.

We're still having a grand time!!!!!

... half of the ruins, but saw some really amzing stuff.
Pity we couldn't get into the large arena as it was blocked off and looked really impressive from what we could see from the outside.

OK, so we're living on an Olive Farm for a while now.
Bohemian? Yes
Practical? Only when its sunny and only when its not olive picking season.
So what season is it now? Olive picking and its raining.

Welcome to our own little corner of Glastonbury

... a few painful smacks the tooth was out. He gestured and used his limited English to explain that he wanted to clean it up and put it back in as a temporary until she got back to NZ. As you will all appreciate it is hard enough to communicate with a NZ dentist with a mouth full of cotton wool rolls let alone one who cannot understand your semi broken English grunts. Her mouth got dryer and dryer during the procedure and he seemed to get more and more frustrated that he ...

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Capri Pictures
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Pompei Pictures
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I arrived at about 1730 to Salerno.
The next day I went to Pompeii and saw the excavations. I took an audio guide with me so I was there for about 4 hours. I realised later that I actually walked past a whole heap of plastered bodies. Typical. But I still saw some others. They were very small people, and you could see the expressions on the faces and even their teeth as they lay in their last positions. Pompeii is massive, bigger than the new city although the public can only see a ...

I envisioned Pompeii to look like pictures I’ve seen of Greece, with the Parthenon and white ruins of broken marble columns - but instead I find crumbling brick walls that remind me of the shabby villages in China that the government is hastily tearing down. By 2:30pm our bus arrives at Pompeii, and we enter the park-like entrance with the tour guide. She hands us each an individual ...

... of bowls and trays that I had pointed out in front of me to choose from. I narrowed it down to a tray, easy to carry, and a bowl, difficult to carry. As usual I chose the difficult to carry bowl. It spoke to me, it was so beautiful :) I would now be burdened for the rest of the day with this big bowl but it's worth it, as you can see from the picture I took of it before it was bubblewrapped. We continued our wanderings through quietly winding streets lined with flowers and ...

... large and the bathroom is around a corner and down a tiny hall - well there is a large chair kind of dividing the two - Jim got up close and personal with the chair at about 5 a.m. - he fell back asleep - I couldn't really sleep after that. The plan had been to go to Capri today - but I knew Jim was tired - and we would have had to leave quite early to get there before the mass of tourists arrived. We decided to have breakfast on the roof and then take the train to Pompeii ...

Today we went to Pompei... about 1 & 1\2 hours south of Rome. Here there was an entire civilization frozen in time from an eruption by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Similar to the Egyptians, except 2000 years later, everything is preserved amazingly! They were very elaborate with their artwork ...