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We had some free time after our hard day of sight seeing so Art and I retired for lunch out the front of the Pantheon… so very harsh!!! The food was excellent, views extraordinary and the Italian water gave us some cold lemon chello as a gift!! We like it here!!
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From Rome to Pompeii and onto Sorrento

Tav
2006-01-13 19:41:48

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We had some free time after our hard day of sight seeing so Art and I retired for lunch out the front of the Pantheon… so very harsh!!! The food was excellent, views extraordinary and the Italian water gave us some cold lemon chello as a gift!! We like it here!!

In front of one of the buildings down town there is a statue of a horse and it is 12m long. When it was completed the workers had a banquet inside the belly of the horse to prove how massive it was!!

Rome, Italy, is the home of the Vesper… People of all shapes, sizes and ages ride them around, it’s insane!! People generally wear helmets but no other protective gear and they are completely insane the way they duck and weave through the traffic. There are also plenty of ‘smart cars’ around and after seeing the cost of fuel and the state of the parking I don’t blame them!

We were hot and bothered so we ended up catching a cab back to our hotel. We were disappointed that people didn’t want to go back out as we were to have drinks at the Colosseum which would have been good, but ended

up having drinks at our hotel instead.

The following day we left Rome heading for Sorrento. On the drive through you notice how poor the whole area really looks, temporary housing everywhere and cheaply built units.

We passed along the edge of Naples, or Napoli as the Italian say… Napoli is the 3rd biggest city in Italy and is still very much under the control of the Mafia - including the government.

About 25 years ago Napoli experience an earthquake that lasted no more than 2 minutes, but the devastation was immense… The quake flattened 10,000 square km’s and 2,700 people died. As a result Napoli is a very poor city with a modern area of sky scrapers in the middle. They build this modern section of the city with the $35 ...