Hotel Executive 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 ...

... so far.
Naples is not a nice city, but it's a cool city. Venice, Florence, Verona are all nice, but once you've seen the sights, there isn't much else to them.

Walking around the Spaccanapoli district saw some really cool stalls and shops - some that looked like they had been there for ages and not changed much at all. Old school book stores with books piled high and seemingly without any order or system, a stretch on San Sebastiano that ...

... the north towards the south is evident still today... with northerners... north of Rome that is... passing judgement on the south... often in a blatantly harsh manner... I know that this is where the Mafia rules... and it seems evident in many aspects... but it is filled with the living... people caught in the moment of their ensuing conversations with each other... much of their energy being passed from one human to another... and not to the building of any ...

... century Cathedral of St. Andrew. We had lunch at a restaurant with delicious pasta and their local wine. We continued winding our way towards Pompeii. Again, I couldn't believe I was walking the ruins of Pompei. We took pictures of actual pictures of people that were fossilized by the lavas of Mt. Vesuvius. It was a very warm day and for a while there I hoped that volcano ...

... ride to the site, and were stunned by the absolute perfection and immensity of the place. Mount Vesuvius is indeed right there, a beckoning invitation to disaster. It is no different nowadays; we were surprised with how many buildings are built a fair way up the base of a still-active volcano. I suppose you could say the same of many places prone to natural disasters. The weather was odd, a mixture of freezing cold with dark clouds mingled with rain ...

... back it was more of a ship than a boat. When I heard we were going to take a ferry over, I had in mind one of the big, flat topped, ferry boats. But, this was just a regular boat on the way over and a rather large ship on the way back (I did take pictures, but I don't have any of those ready to post yet). As I think I've mentioned in the past I get motion sickness, and as everyone was keen to mention to me- if I get motion sickness from a car then I would surely ...

... a tour getting off a bus so we figured we had better beat the crowd. It was like playing chicken w/the trucks, then we had to wait for a few to be tied down and we eventually did find an elevator (that did not work) and a set of stairs. Climbing the stairs I was surprised how nice the ship was inside. It had everything from a bar/dance club to a movie theater and several restaurants. We found our spot which was in a ...