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1147. Going to Mass to Escape the Rain (Italy 124)
... explore Scafati properly… across its river, tumbling over an artificial waterfall… on to another church and plaza where a Roma woman is training her young child to beg… One plaque catches my attention, written in English and Italian, dedicated to General Forrester, thanking him for "liberating" Scafati and sparing it from further destruction in World War II. I’m ...
1146. Christmas Eve stuck in a Train Tunnel (Italy
... bit every now and again just to keep that edge.
And then, a detail, which, if I were more superstitious I would consider divine… Somebody forgot their jacket here at the station! It’s not going to be enough to keep me warm… but at least it’ll give me something to sit on. I go ahead and head down into the tunnel, hoping that my itinerant vendor friend isn’t watching me, and prepare for a very cold night. Too cold ...
1145. Continuing on in the Dark (Italy 122
Day 062: 2 hours, 4.0 kms
It's completely dark by the time I reach the next town, where I pause to strum in a cozy little plaza. Safety is a little bit of an issue, squeezing down these narrow roads in the dark, but fortunately there’s not a lot of traffic. And then I’ve got ...
Pompei's eruption !!!!
Bonjourno again,
Saturday morning and we find a taxi easily and head to Roma Termini, the main railway station. We book a train and 30 minutes later we're in our compartment and the roman scenery is flashing by. We have to either change to a metro at Naples to get to Pompei. We opt to taxi to Pompei after finding out it is very cheap and a lot safer. (don't have to hold down your pockets). Got a cabbie who squashed us into his small taxi and off we went. ...
Pompeii rocks!
Somewhere I'd always wanted to go - Pompeii. A chance to nosy inside other people's houses. What did a Roman urban house feel like, oppressive with no windows, or spacious because of the hole in the roof? Where did the water go when it rained? Did it make it wet inside? Where did the servants sleep? Where did they get take away from? How big did the forum/amphitheatre etc feel? Where did the sewage go?
Pompeii was buried under ...