Hotel Noris Ischia

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 !

... TravelPod" is a complete pain in the a@$ to use. For our 2010 "Radical Sabbatical" trip to Asia, I'm switching to another web service.

But, I've promised myself that I'll update this blog before we leave Naples...

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!

... advice on where to go in the area. Good location to go north (to Naples and Pompeii) and south to Positano and Almafi (which is a hair raising but spectacular drive). We also took the boat to Capri which is a beautiful island and especially loved the Blue Grotto. First time we ran into some rain and we were at Pompeii for about 2 hours before it started raining .. even ...

... park a smart car. And nobody got parking tickets.

Our first bus tour, on the red bus, began at the Castel Nuovo and headed north to the Museo de Campodimonte passing the Fontana in via Medina, Convitto Nationale (National School in Naples), Basilica de Santa Maria della Sanita and the Church of Madre del Buon Consiglio along the way.

Returning to the bus terminal, we ...

... in my mom's condo...but somehow the van would go speeding through without a scratch! It was quite the ride. The girls were usually the ones lying on a row of seated ones, with head on one side of the car and feet almost dangling out the broken side door on the other side. We enjoyed the beach, another section of the sea that had hot springs which warmed the water right up (nice), walking around and also witnessing another Napoli soccer win, which they celebrated ...

... clearly see the masonry counters where the food to sell was kept in large terra cotta vessels which were probably heated by a hearth underneath. The Roman version of fast food. As the sun rose in the sky so did the temperature, and the moisture from the early rain glistened in the slabs of smooth stone in the streets of Pompeii. In every important intersection there was a fountain, now empty, with different motifs on the sprouts: faces ...

... buy tickets to get inside the Grotto. We got in the entrance by ducking our heads down. The man steering our boat sang a song to us in Italian. The water was bright blue (that's why it's called the blue grotto). We spend five minutes inside, then went outside and into the bigger boat and back to Capri. I take over: The Blue Grotto was pretty amazing. You take this small motor boat out to the tiny grotto entrance, where there are ...