I keep waiting to get enough time to upload pictures, and that just isn't happening. But for those of you following this, I just want to say that we had a great outing last Sunday to the Museo de Archaelogico in Naples, which has some absolutely amazing statues and mosaics, mostly from the original excavation at Pompei. I'll upload those later.
Today we intended to go into Naples and from there to Herculaneum (also called Ercolano). But by the time we finally got going, I decided there would not be enough time to make it worth our while. Instead we wandered around the Spanish Quarter. Had a great meal and experience at a ristorante just off of piazza Dante. Piazza's are kind of like a town center--a big courtyard with important buildings around it. They are all over, and serve a similar function to our parks.
The owner of the Ristorante obviously felt sorry for us because we were struggling over the menu. He kept bringing plates of things for us to try. As we were getting ready to leave he brought these donut tasting blobs of sugar coated pastries--very good. The waiter told us they are called "Graffette". So now I know one more thing safe to order.
Tomorrow we are going to get up early to take the train into Rome to the area around the Colliseum.
2 comments:
It's so good to hear from you with your adventures. Have fun around the Coliseum. That will keep you occupied for awhile.
The weather has been a little damp here. Normal fall with the colors.
We don't have nearly as much incentive to go to Bellingham lately but we did. We did encounter your Pastor Paul and Cindy. They said they were missing you a lot also...
love & hugs to everybody.
Great to see a pic of the boys!!! Our kids are very excited. :-) Can't wait to hear about your outing to the coliseum - what a wonderful opportunity your family is having! Much love to all of you.
(oh, my kids want to know if they have halloween in Italy?)
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