Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Genoa on the Shelf

We are in Genoa the birthplace of Chris Columbus, but the city is not banking on that association. We have a nice room in a B&B next to the harbor and many of the sites. But not near many open restaurants as we looked around on a Monday night. So next door was a take out pizza and that looked fine. William was holding the pizza and I was fumbling with the keys in the double doors when unbeknownst to me a woman came up behind William and tried to enter with us. William said she looked like a hooker so he closed the outer door on her as she was shouting "but I live here." But she didn't have a key as she never came in. Interesting.
The on line ad for the B&B must have been written by Frank and Ernest as the toilettes are down the hall and the Internet is only in one room, not ours. But we have been promised access to the Internet room until Thursday. Of course the place where the signal is strongest is up on a bookshelf.
Highlights of Sorrento:
Pompeii; William peeks out
Caesar Guillermo
A plaster cast of a cart driver who was found next to his mule
Herculaneum:
These Baths are cracked up from the hot mud
William wants a courtyard with statues---I think he has the Three Graces in mind rather than dogs eating deer

Naples Archaeological Museum:
All the good stuff from Pompeii and Herculaneum was moved here
And William tried to take pictures of most of it
He was having fun

The City of Sorrento is built on gorges. Made me dizzy to look down too long.
At lunch we were entertained by a picture of the pope standing in front of a picture that looked to be depicting the toilet training of the baby Gesu.
St Francis, William and the cat
Vesuvius across the bay of Naples. The snow from the day before had melted off.
Dog on a roof --a city playground for a small dog.

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