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 Barometer - 38,000 feet |
 Otzi, the Iceman |
 Ortisei cafe |
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 Cable car to Alp de Siusi, Dolomites |
 Ortisei, Val Gardena |
 Above Ortisei |
 Alpe de Siusi |
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 Above Selva |
 The Sassolungo |
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 Sassolungo near Sella Pass |
 Mountaineer Phoebes |
 View from our lodge, Ortisei |
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 WWI bunker, Passo di Falzarego |
 WWI trench |
 WWI trench |
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 WWI tunnels and caves |
 Trail to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo |
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 Rifugio Locatelli |
 Rifugio Locatelli |
 The Tre Clouds, er, Cime |
 Alps wildlife |
 Rif. Locatelli from across the valley |
 Finally some peaks show themselves |
 Noah snowah (and he missed me...) |
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 Trento |
 Trento frescoes, Casa Cazuffi |
 Ferrari factory |
 Ferrari employee parking |
 Ferrari museum |
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 Ferrari rental - $110 per 10 minutes...we passed |
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 St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City |
 Magic store, Rome |
 Rome elevator |
 The Vatican museums |
 Vatican tour |
 Roman tub |
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 Vatican museums - had the place to ourselves |
 Raphael painting |
 Sistine Chapel ceiling - sshhh |
 The Pope's front door |
 The Pope's keyhole |
 Pieta - Michaelangelo |
 St. Peter's Basilica dome |
 The Vatican's Swiss Guard |
 Vatican P.O. |
 The Pope's apartment |
 Roma |
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 River Tiber and St Peter's |
 Castel Sant' Angelo |
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 Bernini's piazza |
 Colosseum |
 The Emperor's luxury box |
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 Marble benches |
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 View from Palantine Hill |
 Detail from Titus's arch |
 Titus' Arch |
 The Roman Forum |
 The Forum |
 Trajan's Column |
 Trajan's column detail |
 Emperor Constantine's hand |
 Constantine |
 Roman ruins |
 The Pantheon dome |
 The Pantheon |
 Piazza Navona |
 River Tiber looking towards Castel Sant' Angelo |
 Smart cars everywhere |
 and Vespas |
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 Smart parking |
 The Spanish Steps |
 Piazza del Popolo |
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 Amalfi Coast |
 Praiano |
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 Hotel Margherita terrace |
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 Amalfi bianco |
 Praiano duomo with Positano in background |
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 Positano |
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 Limon |
 Breakfast |
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 Praiano beach |
 Pompeii |
 Pompeii basilica |
 Villa with mosaic floor and frescoes |
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 Street crossing stone - allows carts through but keeps togas out of the mud |
 The outdoor theater |
 Small theater (had a roof) |
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 Graffiti |
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 Snack bar |
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 Bed in the brothel |
 Cast of a victim |
 Victim |
 The Baths |
 Cave Canem - beware of dog mosaic on floor of villa entryway |
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 Bakery |
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 Storage of artifacts |
 Cast of victim |
 Villa of the Faun |
 WWII U.S. bomb casing - wrecked the best preserved villa in Pompeii |
 Vineyard with Vesuvius |
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 Apollo's Temple |
 Amalfi restaurant |
 Amalfi harbor |
 View from Ravello |
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 Herculaneum - a smaller but better preserved town near Pompeii |
 Herculaneum street |
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 Boats were found here with skeletons of people trying to flee the eruption |
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 Mosaic and fresco |
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 Victim skeleton |
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 Vesuvius crater rim |
 The crater - still active |
 View of Naples from Vesuvius |
 Wall of the crater |
 Vesuvius from across Naples Bay |
 Recycle your veggie oil - long story! |