A quick post from our INCREDIBLE hotel on the Bay of Naples. We arrived this afternoon, after a quick jaunt at Paestum, one of the finest examples of the Greek colonization of southern Italy (check it out here!). The building where we're staying is about 400 years old and is situated on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean. As with most places in Italy, it is overrun with stray cats - who of course are tiny and adorable - as well as a variety of other farm animals. We saw goats, sheep, chickens, and even bats. Yes, I know that bats are not typically considered farm animals, but screw you.
We got to the hotel in the ancient Roman boom-town of Cuma and promptly watched the sun set below the sea, falling behind the ruins of the Cumean ampitheater, which is about 100 feet behind the hotel, right in our backyard for all intents and purposes. This sight was gorgeous; the sun and the sky were dyed countless shades of countless colors.
Tomorrow we're off to Pompeii, which promises to be amazing. A perfectly preserved Roman city on the shores of the sea almost exactly as it was in 79 AD makes me twitch a bit with exitement. After that it's to the National Museum of Antiquities in Napoli, a city which apparently is STILL in the midst of a garbage workers' strike that is many months old by this point. Driving through the city today, we saw piles of trash everywhere - lining the sides of the road and piled on street corners. Fires burned in the countryside becase there's literally nowhere else for all the trash to go. They should just pay the guys more! If there's any occupation that should be decently compensated, it should be garbage collectors. Somebody call the AFL-CIO.
Time for wine (I guess we're celebrating my birthday or something...) and revelry. GO CUBS.
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