Solemar Terme 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 ...

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!

... 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.

... umbrella and raincoat got soaked through to our underwear! Next day it rained hard too but did not mind a lazy day with no sightseeing. The city of Naples has a few nice areas but is a really dirty city and one day of sightseeing was plenty. Seeing Naples and Mt. Vesuvius from a distance is the best way to see them but south of Naples and the Almafi coast is not to be missed.

Buon Giorno! This morning we woke up in Napoli or commonly known as Naples! This would be the port where you could take tours to Mt. Vesuvius or the ruins of Pompeii, the famed Roman city that was buried by volcanic ash after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79AD. Or, tours were available to the beautiful coastal areas of Sorrento and Capri! Today, we opted to remain in Naples and tour the city ...

Our last day in Ischia - being at the beach for so long the last couple of days gave us new energy to explore a little bit more of the isle. We already took the local bus and surrounded the whole isle and had cool views over the coast and the hilly area in the middle. We decided to see the coast line in the southwest (I think). Those cool formed rocks and the area around it is called Sant Angelo ...

... as she is veggie-phobic) shared half a bottle of wine, a basket of bread and a liter of water. I had Ravioli, she had seafood spaghetti. Followed up by a cappuccino each, I had custard with a caramel liquor topping and Gywn had some sort of lemony cake-ish thing. I'm not real big on custard generally, but it tasted nice with the cappuccino. We stopped to get some water to take back to the hotel and got momentarily trapped ...

... around at about 1630 after 5-6 hours and caught the Circumvesuviana back to Naples. Ivars got back at 2130 and instantly launched into a real-time description of his day: "I put my left foot in front of my right, and then my right foot in front of my left, and then my left . . ." When he finally stopped he asked me what I had done. I got about three words into my answer before he burst in again: "You should have done this . . .". And he quite happily talks over the top of me ...