Top Ten Loves in Italy

1. Electric blue skies of Sorrento
2. Etruscans
3. Orvieto
4. Passajata
5. Carciofi
6. unexpected Nooks of veneration
7. Architectural elements of Style:Floor tiles and bricks
8. Bernini!!!!
9. Limoncello
10.Public kissing

Expectations of Italy

Big hand hewn stones *
Joy
Amazing produce *
Family *
Earthy symbols
Catholicism
Smells: mold earth flowers food *
Cloppy noises
Language that allures *
Fashion *

The asterisks are confirmations :-)

April 22 Rome , Pompeii Sorrento

April 22
Up at 6:00 check out 6:45
Taxi pick up to mercedes yellow bus
Mountains are tiburine di appenines

Tivoli--- travertine ancient Villa Hadrian
lazio, campanga , abbruzzo, nemi
Gandolpho pope's summer home
Monte Cassino 'black monks' bombed by Allies
Ponto corvo ( curved bridge) cappucino stop to rest
St. Francis simple life + hard work
St. Benedict patron saint Europeans, students
Appian way with Umbrella/mushroom pines built by Romans
12 feet deep
Limoncello/ margherita pizza
Napoli was hreek also pompeii
King Anjou resident was castle
Santa Barbara
Santa Maria de cartena

Pompeii 79 ad 8 meters ash suffocation
Lunch in Pompeii and gelato
2 hrs. at ruins
Hotel Ambasciatori in Sorrento awaits
View of Vesuvius and Capri from balcony
Difficult evening stroll in Sorrento
exhausts Dan
10:30 to bed

April 27 Rome NYC Portland

April 27
Up at 6 taxi at 7:45
Fly to JFK New York City in 9 hours!
5 hr layover dinner at Chili's and another 5+ hrs
To Portland
sleep the entire way, no beverages at all!
Watch its complicated again and
Men who stare at goats across the Atlantic
Finish reading Under the Tuscan Sun




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April 26 Rome last Day

April 26 sleep in to 8
Baths of Dioclesia at Mike's interest
Strawberries scrambled eggs bearclaw croissant
Santa Cecelia read Rick Steves.
tried to suffocate her in baths, eventually beheaded.
Cappucino
Geniculum hill
Giancolo
Jesu Bambino Hospital
Kate Spade sunglasses nordstrom deghli nAncy enhance clarity
'Rip off lunch' pasta fagioli soup battered, stuffed coghette blossom
To Doria Pomphilj museo galleria Brueghel, Bernini, Velasques.
Great!
2 frascati wines at fountain Il Faraone passgata near fountain
Watching boys play soccer, eat gelato, dog interactions, stern priest strolls
Home to shower/ shampoo for final evening
Pizza funghi vino rosso dan has the lamb.
Panna cotta for my half birthday/ cognac for Dan, h20 for me

April 25 Rome Orvieto

April 25
Alarm at 7 nice breakfast
Baths of dioclesian
Train to orvieto 10:36
Duomo di Orvieto
Ravioli burro / salvia Nancy has the gnocchi
Stroll
Tren 4:15 to Roma
Aperol romo server ghiaccia
Dinner 'thank god its friday' name of pizzeria nearby.
Gratzie dio por venerdi
Camilla pizza. Arugula corn corgette
Walk in dark to Coliseum

April 24 Sorrento Positano Ravello Rome

April 24
Rye bread with blood orange marmelade buro
Coffee mike toasts my bread
Tour 9;30 Giulado in van
Positano on med sea
Priano mike buys shoes
Priano nativity along roads
Atrania
Castiglione
Amalfi 44 K. 1500 curves
Monte latare milky falanghina grape
Scala
Vittorio Pizza house wine pranza
Pino Maritimo are those mushroom shaped pines
Off in Sorrento stroll, to appt.
Meet flora for ride back to pompeii
Love her voice!
Wine in Pompeii while waiting Miriam
'Go to cafe, have nice orange juice'.
Ride to Naples
Snack at monte Cassino slice and apple
Loose energy on bus Miriam talks non stop
Arrive Duca d'Alba Hotel 930, crash