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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 | By austinslacker | Photo Gallery
March 12, 2011 and March 13, 2011
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Sat, 25 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1449]
It is a strange trip indeed from Sorrento to Sicily. We began by traveling north on the Circumvesuviana line to Naples. Then we boarded the southbound train, first-class was all they had available, to Reggio Calabria on Italy's tippy-toe where, like ... Read more >
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 24 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [923]
The road along the Amalfi Coast is so narrow that drivers are
advised to fold in their side mirrors and many cars bear scars on the driver’s
side. The locals speed into the
turns and drift across the center line, scaring the daylights out of us
tourists.... Read more >
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1804]
The archeologists who “discovered” it in the 18 th Century can be forgiven for naming it the Temple of Ceres after the Greek goddess of agriculture. Its columns glow like golden sheaves of wheat in the morning sun. More ... Read more >
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1272]
On the surface Matera seems to be a new (for Italy) town, built in the 1960s. But there is an old town where any building could date back to the 8th Century, or earlier. We had the slippery, narrow streets and steep stairways to ourselves ... Read more >
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [2440]
Driving from Sorrento to Caserta was tedious, tiring and, frankly, disgusting. Once away from the coast the road is a tour through one dirty, potholed town after another, seemingly in circles. Once out of the populated areas the roadside ... Read more >
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 17 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [2113]
If you lived in Pompeii, August 24 in the year 79 AD would have been a good day to be out of town. Around noon, Mt. Vesuvius began pouring tons of ash into the sky. It had been rumbling for a few days but no one thought much of it. As the ash piled ... Read more >
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 16 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [3236]
Naples is the most densely populated - and supposedly one of the most corrupt - cities in Europe. The guidebooks post warnings, fellow travelers spin tales of woe and even the public address system at the station remind passengers to be cautious of ... Read more >
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1156]
It was closed! And the Colosseum. And the Palantine Hill, too. They were still closed five days after the "Blizzard of 2012" dumped one centimeter of snow on Rome! I guess we can understand the reasoning. The temperature hasn't risen ... Read more >
Sat, 11 Feb 2012 | By matera | Views [286]
siamo stati a Matera la scorsa estate:meravigliosa!abbiamo soggiornato al Residence San Giorgio ( www.sangiorgio.matera.it )un albergo bellissimo e suggestivo nel cuore dei "Sassi" di Matera.le camere scavate nella roccia e il recupero storico ... Read more >
Sat, 11 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1013]
It's always good to have a backup plan. With snow in Friday's forecast, even the single centimeter predicted, Hizonner, the mayor, still smarting from last week's surprise snow, virtually closed Rome. "Chiuso" as they say for schools, government ... Read more >
Thu, 9 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [2693]
Cameras are not permitted in the Borghese Gallery, which is a pity. The gallery is home to three of the most striking marbles, all by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Gothic successor to Renaissance Michelangelo. If both were sports sculptors, Michelangelo ... Read more >
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