These few photos below are about 1/5 of what I ahve to add from my Trip to Italy and the few weeks since. And whilst I'm loathe to add a photo essay that isn't complete, I don't really ahve a choice. It takes a surprisingly long time to get things the way I like it on this website when I'm adding photos. For example - the Christmas Photo-essay took me the better part of a day. One reason for this is that all my photos are stored on Dave's computer. Therefore I need to be using his computer, which limits the available time drastically. A further problem encounterd by this is Dave himself. Such like a child who is learning how to share. If he leaves the computer to do something else and I sit down to start work on it - all of a sudden he wants it again. My interest sparks his interest. So I get kicked off again. SO the fact is, that whilst I would like to put all the italy photos on in one hit, I wont be able to get enough time in one sitting. So I will do it in drips and drabs otherwise it will never happen!! After Christmas we went with Rachel adn Richard to Rome for 2 nights (Dec 28 - 30) then Naples for three (Dec 30 - Jan 2). Below is the last part of our stay in Naples from the night of the 31st till the 2nd. Essentially it is New Years and our trip to the 'Crown of the Naples Museum Circuit' - the Naploi Archaelogical (sp?) Museum.
(Yes. I know that I should have started with our first day in Rome, but when I started putting the photos on I had grand plans that I would do the entire Italy trip, only to be felled by reasons listed above)
Friday, January 20, 2006
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Naples, Italy - New Year 2006
First beers of New Years Eve went down smoothly for most of us. For me, it was the first liquid/solid I had held down for 48 hours so it didn't sit with it's usual aplomb, but not one to let the team down, I battled through it. After these initila drinks we headed to the local Italian Club where were booked in to a 5 course meal (delicious) and an evening of drinks and dancing. Unfortunately soon after the first course my stomache decided it had had enough and proceeded to tell me so after every course I attempted to eat/drink.
Some of us in the Italian Club were given tambourines after dinner to bang along to the 'live music'. In true Italian style, most people proceeded to jump up on the tables and dance with such vigour, it was almost a competition to see who could look like they were having the most fun. Sadly whilst Rachel was unable to match the pouting and preening of the Italian ladies, but she did our table proud. After ten minutes of this, my stomache demanded that I go home where I passed out almost immediately. Only to be woken at 4am by two giggling australian men who were in the hallway making loud dog-barking noises. Needless to say Dave wasn't in my best books at that moment...
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples - Italy
Apparently you can get 'lost' in this museum for days. I think they are referring to people entralled by mosiacs and old statues as we managed to do it within an hour. All quite good, but would have been better if placards/signs had English so we knew what we were looking at. But the stuff from Pompeii was pretty incredible, Dave was particularly fond of the 'Pompeii Porn'. I managed to not throw up for a few hours, so that was a positive.
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Christmas morning kicked off with some present opening. Rachel was relieved to see that the weidly packaged present from Rich was not a disaterously bad safari hat, but rather a rather cool hat that not only actually fit her, but would be the perfect accompaniment for the coming European Winter. Well Done!
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