...dateline Tuscany 15:02 ...NZ 04:02....
Righto...better update you as to where we are. We are now in Tuscany about an hour south of Florence and this blog is so behind that I'm going to bundle a few comments up together.
Monday we drove up here via Pompei (nice city shame about the accident). We arrived here in the evening...yes, its a converted monastry. So we're living in dorms with communal facilities and we're rising at two in the morning to sing psalms.
Yeah right..
We've spent our days so far tourning the wonderful countryside and visiting the shops..there are good deals out there, but a lot of sharks as well. Leather goods anyone?
Speaking of sharks, what better time to talk about the Isle of Capri.
If they tell you there are not many sharks in the med..well there are a bunch of them in Capri..oh my aching wallet. Don't misunderstand me..the place is great, but the prices are beyond the merely generous to the eyepoppingly painful. The one "value for money thing" we did was catch the gondola from Anacapri to the highest point of the island..8 Euro. Absolutely fantastic....as the photos will demonstrate when I can finally use my own machine! Probably when I get home.
Now, before I go...some words about The Forum, Ostia Antiqua and Pompei.... "Oops! What happened?"
Well..I could go on...but I enjoy history, and most people don't...so I won't.
We saw everything from the seat of government, to the villa's, the temples, the adminstration...the sewars...the brothels. Expensive legacy...
Right that is tonight's homework...3000 page essay...on: Rome - where did it all go wrong? ...E Gibbons - The decline and Fall.
Bottom line: A year under the Tuscan sun will leave you brown and lethargic.
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