Thursday, April 29, 2010

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

April 23 Sorrento Capri Anacapri





April 23
Breakfast at 8 roasted tomatoes on buffet
Guide is Sasha
Board hydrofoil
No blue grotto azurra
6 sq mile of Capri Isle
10k tourists daily
1 road 2 towns 12k americans
300 flowers
"Limoncello doesn't go down it goes up"
Sandals 330€
Pizzaria lunch good pile of pasta pomodoro
MarinarA pizza dan the fish is 'too darn weird'
3 rib bones like snake or eel.
Limoncello ..... Also 3 tastes in Anacapri generous
Purchase lemon soaps Yvonne
Pashmina for Fran
Expresso after cena

April 21 Rome Frascati





April 21
Awake at 6:30 sit
8 breakfast
Bus to treni ticket to orvieto train delayed
After 3 hrs buy 4 tickets to Fracati
A hilltop town
Settle into osteria 9
Liter frascati
Mozzatella bufala tomato in olive oil olives, bread
Porchetta,Parmesano y honey cookies to dip + Isabella
Buy dulci for colazione tomorrow am
Roma tren at 4:30
Return to hotel
At 2 Aperols with Mike and Nancy
Head to salad dinner, rainy stuffed!
Pack, as we r checking out tomorrow

April 20 Roma





Sleep well deep up @7
Apricot yogurt
Meusli
Croissant
harb bpoled Egg
Coffee
Blood orange jc
Walk to termini
Reservation 10:30 Borghese Galleria
Amazing Bernini sculptures
Snack pizza zuchini and birria
Piazza di poppola to meet up w Mike and Nancy
Gelato bosco--- blueberry
Rest, feverish apertivo
Stroll to Travestere
La Taverna degi Amici frascati
Melazane parmigiana yum!
Fiori della zuchinni stuffed w ricotta pesto
Crostata ricotta e limone w moscato
Taxi home...

April 19 Roma





April 19
I am Roman! Good meditation idea!
Roman Oddesey city tour
Rahul from India is guide
Meet at vittoria Emanuelle
steps bt Michaelangelo
Rock of Tarpian
St Paul held in chains
Peter too
Frangiopami family
Bay laurel (poet laureatte) wreaths
Mushroom top pines
460 churches in Rome
Church of the 12 apostles
Michaekangelo taken to Florence
Vativan escalator tuen r
Trevi Fountain
Baroque irregular lines
Portugese
Church of St Ignacius
Marcus agrippa pantheon acqua ducts
124 ad pantheon Hadrian
Margherita's tomb
Lunch fungi pizza
Insalata caprese
Walk across Tiber to Vatican
St Peter's bascilica
Hail storm
Exhausted
Skeletal loose, muscular tension
Drag
Home #64 bus
Rest/ too tired 539-700
Meet for Campari hotel lobby
Dine @ Marcos y Gloria
Octavia hostess
Primi vegetales friti
Tommacini Cascio y pepe
Carciofi romanesque
Dolce tiramisu and panna cotta
2 house wines rosso seina

April 18 Roma






April 18
Arise 430 meditate chilly marble floor
Heat surge, I nearly sweat!!!
Cappucino croissant apricot yog hb egg
Kiwi and fresh chiseled pear
Meet Angel tours Simone
Temple of Saturn 5th c
Agriculture gods
Treasury 760 tons grain
Castor and Pollux
Vestal virgins ' ria'
Romulus purple columns from Egyptian marble
Damiano
Via Sacra julius ceasar.s path to death
Temple to Solomon mennorah
Arch of Constatine
Colisseo
50-60,000 seating
Crucifixion for entertainment
Hunts
Gladiators vs animals
Built 70-80 ad by Judean Jews
buy Train pass

Iaza de re di roma station
25 april holiday liberated

Savoy royals ruled Roma
San Clemente 15 c/4 c/pagan mizithta
Gelato banane/ pistachio gorgeous green like madrone- mike
Hszelnut/coffee- nancy
Termini train to Spanish Steps near out Hotel
priest on roller blades wows crowd

Ponte Longo station pasta w tunno
Home to nap 530-7
Dinner pizzaria from forno legno ( wood oven)
'Ponte & parione' chandeliers
Insalada verde
Pizza gorgonzola arugula
Barolo liter
1 Tiramisu
Grappa nite gap. .smells like wet dog. no aftertaste

April 17 NYC Roma






April 17
Sunrise over Mediterranean
due to Iceland's volcano. we fly South
Breakfast is orange juice, banana, granola bar, coffee.
Shoes snug lack of circulation

Chiesa santa messa 50€ lights
Arrive by taxi Hotel Adriano
very Moderne, shower in bedroom
Walk to cappucino bar near
Pantheon
Lunch formaggio pizza
Insalata fagioli tuno
Est est est a white wine is nice
Leonardo di Vinci machinery exhibit
Chiesa santa messo
Piazza navone
Nap 1 hr after 27 hrs
Meet in lounge at hotel aperol
served by Stefano
Marcona almonds, pistachios, potato chips
Walk to Osteria Anima
Pasta arrabiata ( angry).
Rogula salad
Limoncello complimentary
Bed 930

April 16 Portland NYC




Up at 3:05
Bus late. check in at Delta easy w passport
Breakfast at Gustavs
4-5 hr flight to JFK text Fran
Love listening the the local conversations and accents in NY!
Truly international
Lunch at Stone Rose
Keep turning clocks forward
Free wine on flight
Penne Pasta
watch It's complicated movie
accidentally hit stop button
Twitchy/ tight sleep space