Hotel Luna Rossa 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 ...

... 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 ...

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... die. I don't know if that means seeing the city will cause your death, but now that I am here. I think so. The city is right well filthy. Garbage everywhere. The streets just don't feel safe. Lots of Africans selling counterfeit good (usually bags or sunglasses) and old Italian men gambling on the street with cards or other tricks. There are slot machines in cafes. Except for Pompeii (which was really ...

... street sweepers (apparently they clean the trash and sweep the entire city each morning). The most astounding fact about Venice is that there are NO cars anywhere, and with all of the canals that swirl throughout the city and act as streets, one cannot go too far without finding a water taxi or gondola ride for hire. I did take advantage of the water taxi, but I did NOT take a gondola ride since I was traveling alone. The city is quite accessible by ...

... 2,000 of them didn't make it out and were buried in ash. The ruins are mostly just walls, since the roofs collapsed from the weight of the ash. But most of the site has been excavated, and you can walk down the streets and get some idea of what the city was like in 79 AD. Visible on the cobblestone streets are the ruts from the chariots and carts that went over them every day. We learned from the guide that they dumped all of ...

... I'd seen pictures but that usually doesn't do things justice. The real amazement was on the inside. How to describe it, I really don't know, huge arches for structure. Just a magnificent work of art. But as usual............. It starts raining on me. I held my ground this time, stored my pack in the information office, donned the poncho mom gave me and went to take my pictures and see what I was here for. I came too far and spent to much of my day on trains and busses to ...