Herculanium

At Herculaneum as seen in the picture, Marge made it plain she was of the same caliber as the guy up on the marble pedestal, and expected the same deference by others. Since that poses obvious problems for another member of the family, it is time to go elsewhere. We leave tomorrow for a boat out of Athens with no more Roman rulers who might inspire her.

Capri

We visited the Isle of Capri yesterday. If you love beautiful scenery, are enthralled by masses of tourists and enjoy looking out over sheer and petrifying cliffs, Capri is the place to be. We achieved 33% success on that agenda.

Pompeii

Pompeii is huge and it took us two full days to give it any kind of a look over. We were reminded of Joe Bflstk. For those of you who are to young to remember Joe Bflstk, he was the cartoon character who always had a black cloud hanging over him. Pompeii had a major earthquake in 62 AD and 17 years later it was finally recovering when Vesuvius erupted. Good old Joe Bflstk.

Sorrento from Above

A glorious view from our first hotel in Sorrento. The only difficulty was that we had to go up over hairpin curves with sheer drops and Italian drivers coming the other way. As a consequence, we decided that being down in the city without a view had certain consolations for our nervoius system.

Train To Sorrento

Naples is an intriguing city, a little rough around the edges, but with many charms. Marge has even discovered a potentially new spot for her art. We'll just need to find some railroad cars in Sarasota.

Mt. Vesuvius

We didn't get to Pompeii today as we had planned, but we did see the archeological museum which was great. Barring an unexpected explosion of Vesuvius or of Marge, we should (might) get to Pompeii tomorrow. However, we are also planning on moving to Sorrento tomorrow, so who knows?

Beach at Nice, France

We arrived today in Naples and found it to be a beautiful spot on Naples Bay.

We had forgotten one picture from Nice that you may find surprising.
Can you imagine? The sunbathers at the beach in the center of Nice bring their bicycles right with them on the beach!

On to Pompeii or Herculaneum tomorrow.