Strand Hotel Delfini 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 ...

... 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 ...

Stayed in a small town south of Naples (Vico Enquense) which was right on the water (in a rather remote cove). We rented an apartment for the week which was part of a hotel complex. At the beginning of our trip, we met Tony (from Jersey City) who was from Vico and told us where to get the best pizza and his wife was from Sorrento (which is just south of Vico) so we had some ...

... we entered a small grocer and purchased some wine to take back and enjoy in our cabin. We found that a bottle of wine cost 2 to 7 euros, which was a lot cheaper than a bottle of Italian Chianti or French Bordeaux at $35-40 USD in the dining room. Although they were good, they weren't unique! As a practice, we've always enjoyed drinking locally made wines wherever we've traveled.

Naples, Campania, Italy ricknelsie

... iridescent blue light is apparently caused by the refraction of sunlight off the sides of the entrance and off the white sandy bottom. Finally, a caught a great sunset of the coast of Punta Carena. From Capri, I took the ferry along the Amalfi Coast and stayed the night in Salerno. I spent most of the day today on the train from there all the way down the coast of Italy to Sicily. Tomorrow I'm going to see Mt. Etna and will post again soon.

... from the bustling streets of Rome and came to Pompeii, which also made it a very snooty and pretentious city. All in all, the 20,000 people (only 60% were wealthy, the rest were slaves) came to Pompeii to have a good time and show themselves off. I walked deep in thought thinking about Pompeiian snobbiness and glamour until I stumbled upon a fresco of a man with a giant penis. I had heard of a Roman cult to the phallus, more ...

... the rowboats through the entrance and then you are rowed around and serenaded for another fee! The men who row the boats seem pretty competitive, although you don't know whether it's for real or for show. Inside, it is an amazing colour, but you are in there for not very long - and the whole experience is a bit exhausting really. It's all done with a great sense of urgency, and the men are yelling at each other the whole time. Our ...