"Romannus Go Home" found
spray painted on the side of a building in Rome. If you are Monty
Python Life of Brian fan you'll get it.
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Sun coming through rain
clouds on the Amalfi Coast.
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View of Positano, a cliff
side town on the Amalfi Coast, from the top of very steep steps. We walked
all the way down, through the town, and to the ocean.
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Awesome tiled roof of a
home in Positano.
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The Positano church with
beautiful tiled dome is in the middle of the photo. This region of Italy
famous for its colorful ceramics. It was a bit overcast the
day we visited, so you'll have to imagine the brilliant yellows and greens.
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Shane on the beach in Positano.
Sorry for the dark photo, but the weather was gray (please note that Shane
is wearing his winter coat.) But it did warm up later when we had to walk
back up the cliff. ;-P
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A local Positanian in front
of a cafe watching us tourists invade his beach. Positano, Sorrento, and
Pompeii were full of dogs, mostly strays. Friendly strays, though.
They knew how to charm tourists.
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A view of another coastal
cliff side Amalfi town from Positano. Bella Italia!
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Shane in front of the Paestum
archeological site. You can tell it was a warm and sunny day--Shane did
not need his winter coat.
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Walking towards the Temple
of Athena in Paestum. The temple was built around 500 BCE by the
Greeks.
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Temple of Athena.
The Greeks had colonized
Paestum, which they named Poseidonia, about a 100 years before they built
this temple. The Greeks ruled for several hundred years. The
Romans arrived and took over, relatively peacefully, in 273 BCE.
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Temple of Athena.
This temple is archeologically
significant because it is the earliest, and one of the few, examples
of of mixed styles of Greek columns. Doric on the outside and Ionic
on the inside.
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Paestum.
As a tourist attraction
Paestum is not as popular as its neighbor, Pompeii. However, Paestum
(Poseidonia) was an important Greek coastal trading town. Under
Roman rule it grew into a major cultural center.
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Back of the Temple of Neptune
(HERA).
This temple is the best
preserved and most in tact Greek temple in the world. Because of the Greek
name for the city, it was assumed this large temple was dedicated to Poseidon.
Most guide books still call it the "Temple of Neptune." (Neptune
is the Anglo-version of the Roman name of the Greek god). However,
recent (mid-1990s) archeology has shown that it was really a temple to
the Goddess Hera.
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Head waiter at La Favorita
force feeding Lisa at the GMU Welcome Dinner in Sorrento.
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Connie's turn! This is what
happens when you don't finish your pasta.
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No chocolate meatballs for
Shane! Meg remarked that the profiteroles looked like chocolate meatballs.
The headwaiter decided Shane, a vegetarian, should not have any.
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Mount Vesuvius as seen from
the ruins of Pompeii. Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE destroyed Pompeii and
its neighbor Herculaneum. Vesuvius is still active and is one of
most dangerous volcanos in the world. Smoke comes out constantly.
It erupts approximately every 50 years. The last eruption was in
1944, so we're due for another any second now...
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Pompeii-Grooves for sliding
doors the entryway of a building.
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Pompeii-According to our
tour guide this symbol carved into a cobblestone on the road was to point
men to Pompeii's "red light" district.
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Pompeii--Large theater.
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Pompeii-Shane, Dr. Cohen
and other GMUers in the atrium of a wealthy Roman home.
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Preserving Pompeii.
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Pompeii--"Beware of Dog"
mosaic in the entryway of a domus (house).
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Another "Beware of..." sign?
This fresco is in the entryway
of a domus in Pompeii.
WARNING:
You must be over 18 to view.
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Is this the vicious dog
we were warned of? (No, it's not dead, its sleeping. I checked.)
Pompeii was full of stray dogs that lived there and lived off the charity
of tourists. The beggars in Rome should take lessons from them!
This one is sleeping in the cool, marble impluvium (square pool to collect
rain water) in the atrium of a domus.
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Pompeii--A section of lead
water pipe inside a domus in was is believed to be the kitchen.
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Pompeii-More lead piping.
This one is outdoors along the perimeter of a garden.
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Pompeii-Tourists leaving
the dining room and entering the garden of a villa. The lead pipe
from the previous photo is in the garden.
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Vesuvius from Pompeii.
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Pompeii
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Capri
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Capri
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Shane on Capri. I
did not get to go, I was sick :-(
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Capri
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Dinner at Ristorante Caruso
on our last night in Sorrento. Sorry for the B&W photo, my camera
wasn't cooperating. Clockwise from center: Connie, Lisa, Amy, Barbara,
Meg, Me, Shane.
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Entrance to an ancient apartment
complex in Ostia Antica, a town near Rome. Person in the photo unknown,
thought I believe it was someone in my tour group. (email me if you recognize
yourself.)
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Another apartment complex
in Ostia Antica.
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Shane behind the counter
at an ancient Roman fast food restaurant.
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There are more photos,
but I don't like them well enough to put them on the web. I have a lot
of the same pictures of the Coloseo, the Trevi Fountain, and other famous
places of Rome that you've probably already seen a hundred times.
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