Hotel Degli Amici Pompei

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!!!!!

... 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.

... 6 or 7 music stores in 1 block- one of which had guitars, lutes and other stringed instruments dating back to the late 1800's.


Also discovered that the food options in Naples are a lot better than northern Italy with a lot more meat based snacks and fried snacks available to eat whilst wandering the streets.
No wonder northern Italians are so skinny and short - their food options for decent snacks are so limited compared to the south ...

... to walk with us so she waited near the souvenir stands. Right before we’re about to leave we breathe a sigh of relief as she turns up. We board the bus that’s parked two blocks away and as it pulls out of the parking lot I realize Margaret isn’t sitting next to me. Our tour guide shouts into her amplifier, “Margaret if you can hear me, don’t worry, we’re ...

... in Pompei.
The lady at the motel recommended a lovely little restaurant so we had a nice meal and a fairly early night ready for a lot of walking in Pompei the next day.
Naples was the first city where we saw a lot of neighborhood with a lot of very poor living standards. Extremely degraded building's and very smelly (from the garbage). Thousands of apartments in very small areas (I.e ghetto's). None of the ...

... me give her the necklace back.

anyway, it was an amazing day and quite a historical lesson. absolutely mind blowing. when we got home the girls were craving American food so unfortunately we ended up at McDonalds for dinner. yes, mcDonalds. ironically there were several groups that went without knowing of other people going. i guess 4th of july made everybody miss good 'ol American fatty foods. back to the daily grind tomorrow...what a hard life we live ;)

We had a full day today! Woke up nice and early (I'm starting to see a trend here) and started heading south for a few day trip. After a few hours of mindless conversation and napping we arrived at our first destination for the day... Pompei! Ever since we had learned that we were going to be spending a least some time in Pompei I was stoked to leave for the south trip. Pompei was yet another place that i had to study for my art history class sophomore year but i ...

... reached the point where you could only proceed with a licensed Vesuvius guide. This we didn't mind, as we had run out of time anyway, and the hike to the top looked like it would take at least another hour. Afterwards, we toured ancient Herculaneum, a town that had been razed by an eruption hundreds of years ago. A small town, it is still being excavated, and it's structures were better preserved than Pompeii. Back on the ...