Cesare Augusto Naples

Nous avons pris l'autobus publique pour atteindre le sommet du vesus, le volcan n'a pas tellement a offrir, mais la vue sur la bay est vraiment belle. Ensuite, nous avons visités les ruines d'Herculaneom. Une autre ville disparue sous l'eruption du vesus il y a pres de 2000 ans. il y a encore beaucoup de travail d'archeologie en cours, mais on peut voir que la ville est meiux conserver, il y a meme des batiments de 2 et 3 etages et des pieces de bois qui ont traversé le temps !

I am so far behind with this blog. Partly, it's because we have traveled every single month during 2009. There's so much to tell & show that unless I write every week, I'm always several trips behind. The other problem is ...

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!!!!!

... aire déserter par les habitants de naples, et puis ensuite on c'est refugier dans le chateau ouvo pemdamt l'orage. nous avons eu un excellent point vue sur le volcan Vesuve. Puis ensuite nous avons visiter le vieux quartier ou les rues tres etroites ne laisse pas entrée les raysons du soleil ! Il y a meme une rue ou l'on ne retrouve que des commerces d'articles de noel. tout pour se refaire une creche ou redecorer l'arbre a chaque année!

... juste a temps pour souper, on peut profiter de la cuisine de
l'auberge pour manger a moindre cout!




Rendu au milieu de notre voyage, voici
quelques constatations sur l'italie. Les restros sont tres cher! Le
vin est probablement l'article le moins cher sur une facture de
restaurant!! ; les italiens et ...

... are moving in to (nice and big and spectacular view over Naples!!) Then we went and got waffles with Nutella for dessert even though we couldn't fit them in – I was pretty sure I was going to explode... but you only live once kids! On the way home Jules took us via a street with great views over the bay Naples is on where all the young couples go and cover their car windows with newspaper so they can have some 'alone time’. There were quite a few couples ...

... at one point to signal the end of a plague. I also took a stroll across the famous Pont Sant' Angelo that was alos built by Hadrian as a regal entrance to the Castel Sant' Angelo. The bridge is lined with statues that are copies of Bernini's orginals. It is pretty impressive. I was delighted to find a lot of artisits selling paintings in this area. Since I do collect some art from each trip to bring back. I eneded up buying a set of ...

... the monastery is very large and stays all year round because it is too much to set up every year. We had spent so much time in the museum and at the Carthusian monastery that it was time to check into our hotel and get dinner. On the bus to the hotel we chose two other people to stay in a room with. After having an hour to relax in the hotel, the professor offered to take anyone interested to a typical Neapolitan pizzeria ...

... Herculaneum, which is another excavation site but much smaller about 10mins out of town by train, spent the morning there and then back into Naples. I don't like Naples at all and will be glad to leave in the morning. It is really dirty and there are lots of suspicious looking characters hanging around the train station. We took the "hop on hop off" bus ...

... Cross the Railroad Lines and take more pictures of the beach. This was in direct defiance of all of the signs and verbal announcements at every single train station, but Amantea? Not exactly a bustling center of transportation. It felt very freeing to wander back and forth over the tracks under the sun out in the middle of nowhere. The train rides back to Naples were uneventful, though long. Made worse by the fact that we were headed somewhere we don't even like for ...