Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Pompeii II

Roman courtyard & gardens









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Alexander & I at Pompeii

I was shuffling through the gardens when I came upon this mosaic - I was very surprised & recognised the face immediately! Alexander the Great (I had seen it countless times before in publications but didn't know it was here in Pompeii).




The mosiac below shows Alexander the great victorious battle against Darius II of Persia





Yours truly

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Pompeii

Pompeii used to be a seaport buy after the eruption it is now 2km away from the sea, that gives you an idea of the amount of lava that must have spewed out into the city & it remained covered for nearly 1500 years





Roman streets


The townhall & other government buildings


Yours truly @ Pompeii

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Naples

I was not impressed with Naples at all.

It was dirty, smelly & rubbish everywhere. I arrived in the evening had a wander around & called it a night.

I did manage to get a picture of this entrance to the city though.





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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Roma Ancient Forum





















A plague from Arch of Septimus Severus





Constantines Arch & the Colesseum






A Church inside a Temple






Early days of the Roman Empire





During the reign of
Augustus/Octavian





The Eastern & Western Empire
Rome & Constantinople





The Roman empire showing road network.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Roma: GP, La dolce vita & a house of cards

I had been to Roma Countless times before but this time was different, I had come with the specific purpose to visit the Tito's Arch & set off on my journey across Europe to Africa.

At this point I had many high hopes of discovery & adventure....The Eternal city did not disappoint me. I spent a weekend with one of my closest & oldest friends Gian Paolo aka GP. After arriving late Friday we decided to do lunch at the beach.




To the beach GP!

We gourged ourselves on lobster, octopus, fresh pasta (el dente of course!) & copious amounts of wine late into the afternoon we partied until dawn!





La dolce vita

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Technology on the go

I decided not too take my Mac computer so as to keep down on the amount of stuff I have to carry & instead decided to use my iPhone.

Electronic book:

I am using Kindle electronic book from Amazon which means I have a whole library with me but no added weight! It has the capacity to hold 1,500 books. This means for instance I can actually use it to read the hieroglyphics in Egypt on the spot (I hope it will be that easy).

iPhone Applications:

iRail - this is an invaluable tool for planning my journeys on the train. Basically I type in starting point & destination it shows me the timetables for all trains, it will even give me a map of the route ( of course it not perfect but with a little tweaking I can find the best routes to suit my Itinerary).

Voilà - tracking tool which allows me to show my current location so that friends & family can be kept abreast of where I am.

Google Maps for the iPhone - when I'm lost! Or the route from point A to B & the nearest facilities to my location (bancomat, restaurant etc).

Wikipanion - I thought this would be cool to have but have in actual fact along Wikitravel I have found it very useful for providing me pointers on the sites/museums & general places that I've Been visiting.

Trip journal - this app allows me to use tracking of my jourmey with a map view.

Tripdeck - I'm using this as a visual tool with pins on a map to show people an outline of my trip. It has a much wider range of use for planning flights etc I'm sure that @ some point my scope of use will increase.

Hotels

I'm booking about 2/3 days ahead of my location arrival using www.hotels.com which so far has been coming up trumps with the quality of rooms at really low rates.

Photos tools to be updated.

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Train journey into Milano

More photos from the journey thru the Alps into Northern Italy











































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Monday, March 8, 2010

Zug & the journey thru the Alps


28/02/10
The journey thru Switzerland was a total breeze well, what did I expect it's the Swiss after all! (even when the train went under mountains I was still able to get a mobile signal) clean trains - communal areas with sofas & tables - free wireless to check timetables etc - people friendly (Parisiens take note!).

But the actual trip was awesome don't know how many times I said WOW looking at these big, HUGE mountains, tilting my head toward the sky only to look at clouds!! (I need to do the ski thing) good thing the carriage was empty I must have seemed like a big kid jumping from window to window.
Stayed overnight in Zurich & did a sidetrip to Zug.








Check the rainbow a good omen for my journey.









































You'll have to excuse my immaturity here, I couldn't resist taking this photo! Dorf means village (snigger, snigger).

Next stop Milano Italy......

Location:Mudroňova,Bratislava - Staré Mesto,Slovakia

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