palermo, and corpses

hey, we maded it to palermo, unfortunetly there is little internet here so i cant update much
well, upon ariving we had a little difficulty finding our room, well more specificly, our room lady.
the next day, we headed to what are known as "the catacombs" wich are 8000 corpses, stored on shelves in tunles under palermo, and which you can stoll for 1.5 dollars, and reac out and touch the corpeses, unfotunetly i forgot my camra when i came to the computers, so here is a link to the website
we saw some amazing churches, and not much else
see ya soon

valcanos, and pergatory

hey, a couple things have happend, since my last post, we have left napli, /cry, but let me startù
the day we left, we had to wait till 11:30 at night to catch our trian, so we headed off to a "dorment" volcano,

the one, while you can not apreciat it, sounded increadiably loud, and came roaring out at nearly 200°, there were also flats of boiling mud, and fealds of steam, we headed back, and went to a couple museums, the first was one devoted to humanity, and was a grand couple of two small rooms, the second was devoted to animals, and contained stuffed everything from elephant, hippos, eagles, shell fish, sheep... and all looked to be in pain, o well, we also saw some freaks, 2 headed goats, six legged sheep, lots,
we had ourselves some amazing pizza, and headed to the train station, for a 3 hour wait, at 11:25 it rolled in, it was hell. 5 of us cramped in, seats could only face completly upright, with no legg room, no one sat in front of Vaughn, so he was able to make a bed and sleep, the woman oppisite me was, excuse me for saying this, short, fat, ugly, and, well, she snorted, got about 2:00 of sleep, so that was awful. pulled into siracusa at 9:00, so we are now in scisily, went to LOL hostel, yes, its actually called LOL hostel http://www.lolhostel.com/home.html, its not bad, walked around the city, went into an old WW2 shelter, bought some fresh swordfish for supper, nothing much, tommorow we go to some old greek rins, look forward to it

anoying old white haird guy

hey, you wont belive this, but remember that old white guy that stoped us from going to saiint pauls? well, we tried to go to a history museum the other day, but learned that it was closed because he was talking infront of there!, and then later that day i went to cross the street but once agian, they had the road blocked off just so he could drive down it!!, here are some pictures

well, yesterday we decided to go to erculem, like pompeii but it was burried in a mud flow, so it is in much better shape, while pompeii is more extencive, most of the buildings had their second floor inshape. amd there were tons of beutiful paintings

unfortuantly is was raining and blowing like no ones buisiness, so we had to make our trip short, mom? i broke and umbella it was blowing so hard, and nearly my own. So we headed home,

and spent the day indoors, only poking our heads out for the food.

today, theres not much going on, i managed to download the newest naruto, and watched that (touching, poor elder chiyo)

ill keep in touch

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pompeii

hey, i just returned from pompeii
well, upon getting up we caought (the wrong, and after a try, the right) train to pompeii, it is extensice, that is opne thing you cant get from photos, it is 55 hectors, some of the houses ar tiny, and other quite extensive, while all the "frozen people" had been removed, there are tons of husks, infact there are several remaining frescos, wall paintings, some still looking fresh, while there isn t much to talk about there, there was alot to see, we wanderd around for about four hours, before heading back, not myuch to talk about,
see ya all later
serge
oh yea, mom? remember my red wind breaker? i kinda lost it,

naples

hey, its serge, heres whats new
some one had told us how the view from the top of saint pauls cathderal was magnificent, so before we left on the train for naples, we decided to revistit, when we araived there, there where tens of thousands of people sitong outside, the entrence to the cathedral was blocked, and some old white haired guy was droning on and on, , here is a picture, your guess is as good as mine of who he is (heres a hint, st pauls is in the vatican)
we bopared the train and were wisked away to napoles, araived at 6:00, and was beset by africans trying to sell me stuff.
after an tiring search for our hotel (we sat outside the wrong side of the street for an hour, while my dad tried to find a phone) we got to our apartment
cute place
the next mornign we went shopping, our street has evry thing (and anything) you could need, from butchers to electronics, to wine shops. a great cind of juice is called bloodorange, is a better kind of orange juice
we walked napoli today, its great, vibrant, livley, live octobus in tanks to buy, fish on the corner, a coulple things are unoradox, in news stands the sell porn beside dragonball Z, which is odd.
looking forward to staying here for 7 days, mt vasouvious is visible , which is the 1 near that killed pompei
see ya all later
serge

sorry i cant talk longer, im on 996 mhz processors, and the are SLOW, i mean, 2 minutes to re orient a picture? common!!

Rome

hey all, its great here, we (MYSELF, MY BROTHER, AND MY DAD) just spent the day wandering thruogh rome. beautiful city, there is alot of grafitti throughout the city, but ok, where to start, on sunday, we boarded the plane out of kelowna, after a short 1 hour flight, we reached vancouver, we had a four hour layover in between flights, so we sat around for a time, we boarded the flight which took off after another half an hour. man, first class is the way to go, not that i got to go first class. i was stuck back in thrid class. small leg room, but it did have video on demand, free, so on the 8 hour flight over the atlantic i watched verious movies, aswell as napped. upon reaching london, were were behind schedual, so we dashed through customes, through the air port, and in to the waiting room for another halfanhour wait, and caught our flight to rome, we reached rome at 9:00 PM, their time, which was 1:00 pm our time, so we had been up for 24:00. We then proceded to battle our way through a maze of busses and subways. ariving at our hostel late at night. The next morning we woke at 10:00, which is midnight for you guys, and proceded to retrace our steps to the coleseum. yes the coloseum is big, tall, and all other adjictives, but there are many cooler sights, right beside the coloseum are the ruins of past palaces, shuch had many amazing sights, the buildings were frequently 3+ stories tall, we walked alng the senate, weaving through a myrid of streets, the most frequent type of restaurnt is a pizzaria, the second? a gelatoria, (like icecream), and yes, there are bars in mcdonalds here)
after losing our way multiple times, we reached the patheon, one word amazing, 2000 years old, and no, that it the right number of zeros, a massive dome, vivid colors, a nine meter whole in the peak of the dome, no glass, amazing. we then marched over to the vatican, saw pope pauls tomb, then when into the cathedral, WOW, it seats 60,000 ppl, yes, sixty thousand!, gold inlay, marble evrywherem massive, wow
after that we went back to hour hostle, there is a super market beside it, let me put it this way, CHEAP BOOZE, $.99 for a beer, $1.50 for a bottle of wine, so, cheap
well ill see you later
serge

(yes, there was more, but only got half an hour to do my computer stuff

hello one and all

hey, this is serge, its the 4th, and its a weak untill we leave, this is just to confirm that you have the right site!!