Some will say... FINALLY ???

So I am lazy when it comes to writing ! That is probably why I am not a prolific writer like my wife and my daughter, who are both published authors. As a mather of fact here is a shameless plug for my daughter's book. Even if in French it is a marvelous read...

Her book TANCTIA - CLICK HERE

But I have to admit that I, even if I should actually say "WE", have been quite busy. Living the Dolce Vita is way harder than I thought. So many people to see. So many bars to frequent. So many coffees and/or beers and/or wine. Sometime it includes 1, 2 or even the 3. Life is sooo terrible in Italy. Oh and I forget. I am mostly busy recently by helping some people with their English. It goes from from kids to adults. All of them have become dear friends.

And we have been taking weekends here and there, when Sylvie can afford the time. Like this summer she could not take any time off because she's writing a few papers for work. I would have much prefer to do a cruise and go visit 4 or 5 other countries but NO ! We could not afford the time it seem. All water under the bridge because it has been raining here EVERY F#$%^ING DAYS since the end of June. If it's not raining during the day it rains at night.. Weird summer.

Anyway I thought that you might be interested in seeing the last 2 places that we went to visit. Padua and Bologna. We also visited Napoli, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Torre del Greco and the Amalfi Coast. but unfortunately, my camera had problems during our stay and almost all of my pictures were either out of focus or only half of the picture, But Sylvie did a better job so I will include her links.

Here you will find the pictures that I have taken in Padua (Padova or Padou, depending) and I will put the links to the other pictures in case you would like to see what they look like.

So here goes nothing...
A lot of my pictures were destroyed for by a faulty camera. So I have no images of Napoli and the Museum of Archaeology of Napoli. There, they keep the most beautiful pieces from Pompeii and other cities that were covered by the ashes and rocks and lava from the Mont Vesuvio. But after buying a new camera the next day I got back on the saddle and took about 700 pix. All jewels ! But I will spare you the whole bunch by showing you only the most significance and the most interesting  ones from my point of view. If you however wish to see all of them you are welcome to come and visit. This way we will take an evening and show you all that we have plus charming anecdotes of silly things that I, mostly, said and done...

Firstly : These are the only pictures that survived from Torre del Greco. We had rented a very nice house and our guests were quite charming.

Very old hotel near were we stayed - Had supper there - not impressed !

Train Station from where we could go all around the Vesuvio

View from Station and yes in the back it is the Vesuvio.
You can see it from almost everywhere in this area.

The train Station from where every adventure started...

Very nice temperature for that time of year.
I should add "for us !!!"

From our rented house we could see the famous Capri Island and almost all of the Amalfi Coast. It was a superb view. It is a shame that I do not have any pictures to show you. Maybe Sylvie has some about that.

Now we are NOT going to visit Pompeii because I have lost all the pictures that I took there also. But it was very nice and way too big to visit entirely. After a short while a ruin looks exactly like the other ruins you have looked at for 6 hours. We almost had a overdose of culture that day. I would not have missed it for all the gold on earth. Well I do not know why we say that because for that price, I would do this without even batting an eyelash !!! Anyway... Pompeii / No Pix !!!

Now I do have picture of Herculaneum which I have prefered to Pompeii. It was smaller and better preserved. You can visit many houses that are still standing and the paintings on the walls, ceilings and floorings are in most cases were preserved. You will see by the pictures that it was under 500 meters (547 yards or 1641 feet for old folks like me). At some place you the impression of visiting a ghost town like the Western town of young. The shops are many and some you can see the graffiti that were made before the disaster. So it is kind of an old art form that still exist today. Strange ! 
Anyway... Here is Herculaneum !!!