Aha - free wi fi thanks to the international students' love of cheating the system. They all have the password writtena on scraps of paper and will show it to you if you ask to save you buying something at the shops free wi fi if you buy something). We docked at Naples today and took the train to Pompeii. I need to learn some stronger negative words in Italian as the had to beat off taxi drivers with a stick. They followed us for a full five minutes trying to sell us a taxi ride to Pompeii. The streets are very dirty and the roads hard to cross but we made it without too much trouble. We joined an English speakers guided tour and got a great tour of the site. Josh was very interested but I am not sure if the other two really understood what we were looking at. It is hard to believe that you are allowed to walk through and touch tomething that is two thousand years old when things at home that are 200 years old are behind glass. We bought a takeaway pizza on the way back to the boat and at it on the side if the road. It was good but not great although the price was hard to beat - 7 euro for two large pizzas. The boys are now playing dodgeball on the boat and Jason is napping. Tomorrow is a sea day and we are all a little relieved that there is no port adventure.
A few belated notes about Rome: we had an Australian priest showing us through the catacombs. He was from Melbourne and is going a few years in Rome as a Catacomb guide. St Peter's Basillica was very beautiful but way too crowded. I did tough the foot of the St Peter statue. We got to go down to the catacombs there and see the tombs of the popes - lots of nuns praying. It was an appropriate place to say a little prayer of thanks that our children were not as horrible as Johnny, jack and George. They then took us back upstairs and tried to get us to buy very expensive Vatican medallions and mosaics. i
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