Last night we had a great meal at a fabulous restaurant, Le Del Terme Colosseo.  The surprise was that they had hired three opera singers to sing for us.  The restaurant was in an underground cavern which was the sleeping quarters/baths for the gladiators.  There were no gladiators however Lou dragged me onto the dance floor after lots of food and wine and I danced like a gladiator.  Great food great wine, average dancing gives a great night.  One of the ladies on our table claim to fame was that she was the White Rabbit at Disney Land in Florida.  She doesn’t look like the White Rabbit now, she retired.

Today we went to the Vatican again. The museums we saw were incredible. The Sistene Chapel is indescribable. To see the ceiling of the chapel is to believe that it is curved however it is flat. Michelangelo took four years to paint the ceiling and five years to paint one wall.  It was worth it.  They must have heard we were coming so they had it cleaned.(20 years ago).

We then went to St Peters.  It took a hundred years to build.  People who know me know that I have something to say about most things, however, I can’t begin to describe this place…. Google it and come and see it. Just one fact, they had a problem with the painting fading, so they had them redone in very small mosaics. I couldn’t tell that they were mosaics.  Speechless!!!!

This avo we went to Pompeii. 60 AD had an earthquake and they rebuilt and 17 years later it erupted.  We saw a map in the Map Room in the Vatican that was made in the 1800s and it did not have Pompeii marked on it because it hadn’t been excavated until after that. I also found out where standard rail gauge come from.  It was the standard width of a Roman cart.  We saw it in the sewerage drains that ran throughout the town.  The carts would drive in these drains and worn tracks in the stone.

We also went to a Brothel in Pompeii.  I have included pictures of the stone beds and the original sexual options on the walls.  Firstly the beds haven’t improved in 2000 years and I can’t comment on the other side of things.  My first visit to a brothel and they didn’t take Visa. As a curiosity, check out the arrow pointing to the brothel.

We have arrived at our motel. Faulty Towers.  Sibal met us at the front with a free drink, which I declined.  The head waiter is the spitting image of Robert De Niro.  Apart from that the location is above Sorrento with a view to the Bay of Naples.  Not Bad!!

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