Hotel Ristorante Europa Termoli

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 ...

... juste a temps pour souper, on peut profiter de la cuisine de
l'auberge pour manger a moindre cout!




Rendu au milieu de notre voyage, voici
quelques constatations sur l'italie. Les restros sont tres cher! Le
vin est probablement l'article le moins cher sur une facture de
restaurant!! ; les italiens et ...

... 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.

... br>
Saturday went to the Sotterranea catacombs and the ancient Greek Roman theatre ruins, Walked up to Castle Elmo for my panorama shot of Naples and the sea.


Sunday caught the train out to Pompei which was ginormous!
I think we only saw about half of the ruins, but saw some really amazing 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.

... seen. We passed the old Lanciano prison which according to Giovanni, is now used for private parties and events. We walked along the city walls overlooking the green Italian hills I had fallen in love with. The little houses that overlooked this view were sure lucky, and Giovanni mentioned that they were also very expensive to either rent or buy. If you looked hard enough you could see the snowy peaks of the far away ...

... only option in Barrea was "La Camoscina." The food was good, portions were small and the coperto was huge. Not a place we would generally stop but we were starving. Gabe decided to get his money worth buy using the restroom twice (since most public restrooms charge 50 cents to 1 euro, he save at least 1 euro). The best part was the wait staff tried to avoid giving us our change! Normally in Italy that's not a big deal but they charged a coperto ...

... and finally Patras after 15 1/2 hours at 1230pm. We disembarked and were relieved to find the train station right in front of us. We had about three hours to kill before our train left bound for Athens, so we walked around and tasted our first authentic Greek Gyro, it was delicious! We also got in touch with one of Bry's friends, Post (his actual name is Apostolos Angelopolous - no secret to his nationality), who we would be meeting us in Athens and joining us in the ...