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Digg it UP - Naples and Beyond
The US Dollar has been falling. The Euro, not so long ago worth 82 cents, is now at $1.20 - this is a gain of more than 40 percent in a very short time. The same goes for the Aussie Dollar: from 50 US cents to 75 US cents (that's 50 percent up). Gold, which was trading at less than $300 per ounce for years, is now long past the $420 mark. What is happening to the greenback?I had this interesting conversation with a gourmet coffee vendor at the Sydney Airport. Originally from Afghanistan, he arrived in Australia some 20 years ago. He
After lunch we braved Vesuvius, by car, and the little red rover behaved without fault. Sadly the Italian National Parks authority have seen fit to allow charging for parking an
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The next day we went into Naples by train which was packed until Pompeii about which more later. The plan was to visit The National Museum which is somewhat better than Cairo but that doesn't say much. You've got to see it but make it the first day!
Everything you've been told about the traffic is true so leave the car behind. We did discover why the Neapolitans leave the straps on their motorbike helmets undone, it's so they can use their cell phones while they are driving!
We visited Herculaneum the next day. This is a buried town just south of Naples, much smaller than Pompeii and apparently in much better preservation. As with everywhere it was hard to find a car park but once in we were not so much struck with the fabulous preservation but more by the workmen (re?)constructing walls from some of the rubble lying around.
After lunch we braved Vesuvius, by car, and the little red rover behaved without fault. Sadly the Italian National Parks authority have seen fit to allow charging for parking and
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The next day we went into Naples by train which was packed until Pompeii about which more later. The plan was to visit The National Museum which is somewhat better than Cairo but that doesn't say much. You've got to see it but make it the first day!
Everything you've been told about the traffic is true so leave the car behind. We did discover why the Neapolitans leave the straps on their motorbike helmets undone, it's so they can use their cell phones while they are driving!
We visited Herculaneum the next day. This is a buried town just south of Naples, much smaller than Pompeii and apparently in much better preservation. As with everywhere it was hard to find a car park but once in we were not so much struck with the fabulous preservation but more by the workmen (re?)constructing walls from some of the rubble lying around.
After lunch we braved Vesuvius, by car, and the little red rover behaved without fault. Sadly the Italian National Parks authority have seen fit to allow charging for parking an
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Everything you've been told about the traffic is true so leave the car behind. We did discover why the Neapolitans leave the straps on their motorbike helmets undone, it's so they can use their cell phones while they are driving!
We visited Herculaneum the next day. This is a buried town just south of Naples, much smaller than Pompeii and apparently in much better preservation. As with everywhere it was hard to find a car park but once in we were not so much struck with the fabulous preservation but more by the workmen (re?)constructing walls from some of the rubble lying around.
After lunch we braved Vesuvius, by car, and the little red rover behaved without fault. Sadly the Italian National Parks authority have seen fit to allow charging for parking an
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We visited Herculaneum the next day. This is a buried town just south of Naples, much smaller than Pompeii and apparently in much better preservation. As with everywhere it was hard to find a car park but once in we were not so much struck with the fabulous preservation but more by the workmen (re?)constructing walls from some of the rubble lying around.
After lunch we braved Vesuvius, by car, and the little red rover behaved without fault. Sadly the Italian National Parks authority have seen fit to allow charging for parking an
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After lunch we braved Vesuvius, by car, and the little red rover behaved without fault. Sadly the Italian National Parks authority have seen fit to allow charging for parking and entry to walk to the cone as well as setting up no less than three tourist tat shops including one at the summit and 'guides' soliciting for business. All rather sad.
Pompeii has been much documented elsewhere and while a fantastic site our overwhelming impression was summed up by Bill Brysons words, "do more, try harder, start now". The owners are pulling in big dollars but there's little or no sign that they are spending any of it conserving the site. Crowds trampling priceless mosaic floors, wall paintings left to fade in the sun with little or no protection and rough looking building work going on all over. Expect a Roman theme park on this site shortly, next show: Brutus stabbing Caesar at 2:30! Hopeless.
A trip around the Amalfi Coast and Sorrento peninsular is hugely scenic but it really is a tourist spot. Abiding impressions are of tourists, coaches, hotels, restaurants, tat shops of all descriptions, poor air quality and above all rubbish heaped and strewn everywhere. The driving is a sight all on it's own too but frankly it all gets my "avoid" rating. You had to be there 30 years ago and now you've missed it. Spend your money on someth
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