Eden 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!!!!!

Pompeii photos here:
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Sunday caught the train out to Pompei which was ginormous!
I think we only saw ...

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Saturday went to the Sotterranea catacombs and the ancient Greek Roman theatre ruins, Walked up to Castle Elmo for my panorama shot of Naples and the sea.


Sunday caught the train out to Pompei which was ginormous!
I think we only saw about half of the ruins, but saw some really amazing 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.

... amazing, and it was very peaceful for once – not many tourists were up there weirdly enough. We caught ferry back to Naples and Jules and Zoe picked us up. We went out for dinner at nice restaurant with a great view over the bay, saw a small fireworks display on the otherside of the bay (apparently that means that either a mafia person got out of jail or something about drugs… ooooh!!) I tried lemon cello, and after went to bar for a drink – we ate a ...

Had a leisurely breakfast in Forio, then caught the ferry to Naples. Checked into our hostel, and checked our emails before setting out to explore Naples. We didn't do much sightseeing, as we couldn't really be bothered given there aren't that many sights to see in Naples itself anyway. So we just decided to hit the shopping street, and stop along the way if ...

Like a colorful crazy quilt... Laundry flaps overhead up and down every street streets going every which way, so you feel like maybe you are inside an MC Escher drawing. pedestrians, workers and traffic weave in chaotic harmony. The street vendors begin banging tables and wills at 6 am filling every possible niche sidewalk and spilling into the ...

... try to circle around your hotel to get some extra fare as most stops are so close to the train. We took note of that and since we did not know how close or far our place was, we had to go with whatever at this point, but were on guard. We got a whistling elderly Italian man, with a great big white mustache! He was adorable for the first few minutes! He asked us if we had been to Sorrento before and Laurie thought this time to say "yes, of course". We thought that might ...

... for funny cars in Italy and when we can get the camera ready - we are taking photos for you. Some of these cars are so tiny that we can't imagine how people can get inside to drive them. You can see some funny photos of Bahdee standing next to the cars. Then you can see how tiny they are. Bahdee always says "Oh, there is a real tiny big one" just like you sometimes say! We like the red cars the best - we are looking ...