Hotel Carlo Iii 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!!!!!

apres toutes ces belles villes d'italie, voici naples: l'afreuse! On pourrait aussi dire bienvenue a Verdun en Italie! Ici, la ville est sale, les ruessont ornés d'une grande quantité de déchest et aussi bondées de vendeur itinérants qui fuient des que les patrouilles d'immigrations arrivent!

il y a quand meme quelque beau quartier plus propres et plus tranquille, mais cela passe presque inapperçu! Nous avons visiter la place centrale, une ...

... ne sont pas tres
acceuillant, en tout cas, ils ont souvent l'air bete. Ils sont peu
nombreux a parler et ou comprendre autre chose que l'italien. Ils
n'ont aucun sens du civisme, cela viens probablement de leur
egocentricite. Je dois dire que depuis le debut de notre voyage, nous
ne sommes pas impressione par leur comportements!

... there are some good ones.

Last night I decided to be a jackass. Which I guess is nice that I can decide when to be a jackass as opposed to just being one all the time. Anyway, I was trying to figure out what to do for today. Do I go to Catania and then Reggia di Calabria and then Stromboli and then Naples? Or Messina to the Aeolian Islands to Napoli? Or Tropea? Or more time in G-N? In the end, and at 130 in the morning and ...

... for dinner and cause Angus and I were already $10 over budget (well, I was) we decided to stay in and organise Naples. We said our goodbyes to the americans this morning and angus was upset as the 5 americans particularly had been such an amazing source of fun. Anna was interesting and really sweet... a really intelligent type. Julie was the ditzy cute one, but is studying medicine so has the brains too. She made me laugh so much. Joe was one of my favourite people I have ...

... was delicious... looks like the pizza making diploma they had hanging over their door was very well deserved, - We made a beeline back to the train station safely, waited 2 hrs for our train, waited 3 hrs on the train to get back to Rome, got back to the accom eventually at 11:45pm and were very happy to make it back alive... what a fun daytrip. <Lang's Extended Version> We woke up at 6.20am this morning as the plan was to take an early train to Naples ...

... big enough for a compact car. We noticed the driver had both side mirrors taped into his car as these streets were not big enough for mirrors too! He wound us around and eventually came down a dark lane with hardly any lighting at 11pm! We parked in front of a large wooden door with a buzzer and Laurie told the driver to wait for us until someone showed! The last thing we wanted to do was to be dumped here, no taxi or people in sight and not have anyone answer the door. We ...

Naples is one of the craziest towns we have ever seen. It defines the term bustling and ,while a little dirty and seedy, is actually a pretty cool place. I arrived in Naples at about 420pm from Rome and again was blown away by the pace that everyone seems to be going. Well, everyone except the subway train conductors. It took me an hour and a half to go 3 subways stops with one transfer in between. The most inefficient system I have ever seen. You have to ...