Our day on the Isle of Capri was really, really nice. We took the hydrofoil from the pier at Molo Beverello in Naples, and about an hour later we were there. It was a smiple day. We started with an unbelievable lunch of pasta at an open air restaurant overlooking the beach. There is nothing like Italian food in Italy!! It truly outshines US Italian, even the great Italian dishes found on the Hill in St. Louis. We had swordfish (pesce spada) and insalate and pe...

I was afraid it might not be but Naples IS beautiful. We found our way to the seaside via foot, metro and bus, and found several major piazzas (city squares) along the way. We experienced wonderful parts of the city. I learned I could live here if I were very rich and could live on the hillside overlooking the Bay of Naples. Yes, it's a little dusty and there is a lot of litter, but not as much as we saw in Central Naples yesterday. The people in the inner city ...

O Sole Mio! We got up at 3 am this morning to get to the airport in order to catch a 6 am flight to Napoli. What an ordeal. I will begin by saying, European train travel is much more civilized than flying European cheap airlines. My carry-on was too big so it cost ...... get this, 60 euros to check it at the gate. So much for cheap airfare, but at least we learned how to pack better to get around this, and that will never happen again. Otherwise we made it fine ...

How quickly these seven days in Prague have gone by. We have become familiar with the city, have learned some basic Czech words like "děkuji" for "thank you" and figured-out the meaning of "most" which means bridge. We also learned that fast click sounds at a traffic light indicate you can cross, while slow ones say hold your horses. If you don't pay attention, you could be hit and no one would ever even look back --they'd just toss you over the Charles Bridge ...

Yesterday, August 25, was beautiful, crystal clear blue sky but yet still very warm and sunny! One would never know a ferocious thunderstorm happened during the night before. The thunder was deafening and sounded as though it was right outside our window. But it was different from any thunder I've ever heard before. It was sharp, it was shrill and sounded like someone beating on a tin building. It was Czech thunder. We concentrated on three major points, Starome...