Parco Aurora 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 !

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!!!!!

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!

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 ...

... and infesting what is such a beautiful place (I'm not sure if that counts as racism?!?) but what I can say is that I am so glad that we visited Ischia and it is definitely my favourite place so far (I've probably said that about lots of places...i'm a little bit impulsive). I really enjoyed the change of pace and the complete and total relaxation after what seems like an eternity of museum, church and castle visits. Although I am glad that I ...

... us," may have been an understatement. The dreary weather forced us to accelerate our self-guided tour as the day went on. It wasn't until much later that we discovered we had missed the biggest attraction - the brothel. We had to get another tourist show us pictures of the very explicit wall paintings. One way or another I'll always see everything.

... cheaper relatively quickly as it was getting dark, I kept wandering. All of a sudden this little three-wheeled mini truck came clunking up the road and stopped - holding up a line of traffic behind it. A blonde Brit popped his head out and asked if I was looking for internet. I told him that in fact I was looking for a room. He got out and pointed up the hill saying that he and his brother, Willy, owned a hostel with the best view of the sunrise in Amalfi - only 15 Euro per person ...