We also saw the Amalfi Coast. We took a bus for part of it, and hopped a boat for the rest. I preferred the boat ride to the bus ride, but it was beautiful either way.
We also ventured into Napoli for a day and saw the Archeological Museum there. It was pretty neat. From there we walked down to the water, then back up. The obvious highlight was the pizza. It's the best in the world. Just ask Annie. One bite made her a believer.
After we'd had all the fun we could stand in Sorrento (it really was nice; very peaceful and relaxing. In fact, it wins the award for the best hotel stay) we took the train up to Rome.Rome was great if we disregard the first day. We hda a failed attempt at finding the Rome Temple Site. Bus service in that part of town isn't the most straight-forward. Plus a storm blew in and dropped the temperature about 30 degrees in an hour. We believe we saw the site, but just don't know exactly where we were.
Rome was great, though. We walked all over the place. We started at the Colosseum.
And from there we went everywhere else: the Roman Forum, the Palatine Hill, the Circus Maximus. We got our hands chopped off at the Bocca della Verita.
We saw all the main stuff, plus threw in a couple churches that most tourists don't make it out to. It was a lot of fun. We decided to end the trip with a visit to the Vatican. Here we are on the roof of St. Peter's Basilica. I can now say I peed on top of St. Peter's.
Our flight back home was as much of an adventure as the rest of the trip. We waited for over an hour to check in at the Rome airport. The plane took off an hour or so late (which made our one-hour connection in Paris a little difficult to make). Fortunately our Paris to Boston flight was delayed a couple hours, so we were able to make it back to the US if nothing else.In Boston we were told that we'd been re-booked on a flight to Minneapolis (instead of direct to Salt Lake), but that we had to go to the far end of the airport to catch it. Oh, and we had to do it in less than an hour. We might have made it if we didn't still have to go through customs, run a half mile through the airport, check in at the other end, and get through security again.
We didn't make it. We couldn't have. Fortunately Air France put us up in the airport Hilton that night with an $80 meal allowance, and booked us on a flight the next day through Cinncinati. We caught that flight, and even made the connection (in less than 45 minutes). And now we're home sorting through 1500 pictures and all sorts of souvenirs. Hopefully we'll dig our way out soon and emerge out into public.
4 comments:
WHAT???? you peed on top of St Peter's? and you guys made fun of me!
Well, yeah, just in the bathroom up there on the roof.
weird. in your pictures in the first half of the final post, you're on one side of annie (except one) and in the second half you're on the other side. weird.
That's easily explained. For the first half of the trip, Annie had our camera. Our camera has the button on the right side, so it's easiest to take pictures of yourself with your left hand. She therefore had to be on the left.
For the second half of the trip Annie was using her dad's camera, and I was using ours, which meant that I had to be on the left side.
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