So Rome. Bunch of old stuff, built by long dead guys that mostly hated each other, especially Michealangelo, who then went on to show them all up. Raphael, who tried to make Mike look like a fool, died a few years later a defeated man. By the way, when Raphael was my age, he'd been dead for 10 years. So onto Egypt. What can ya say that hasn't been already. Bunch of guys with their hands out looking for tips. Pick up your bag at the airport, tip. Say hello, tip. constant barrage of would you like a carriage ride, taxi etc. But all in all a great trip. Took a balloon trip over the west bank of the Nile in Luxor. valley of the Kings, Queen Hauptshetpsut (they call her hot chicken soup). went back to the JW Marriott just cause se could in Cairo. went to the Cairo museum and the pyramids. Went into the middle pyramid just to say we did it.Hot. Dead horse on the side of the road near the canal next to the museum. Wonderful.
Cairo to Rome, spent the night. Rome to Dublin, caught the bus to the train and the train to Killarney. Killarney is wonderful. Thought we'd stay 3 nights, decided to stay 5. Just finished an 8 mile walk through the mountains (you'll get the pictures later). Starting to count down to our brief return to the states before heading to Hawaii. Geeze, what a sucky life. Anyway, if you haven't received the snapfish notice let me know (that's where the pic's are posted).
Hope your all having as much fun as we are
Me and Her

So Rome. Bunch of old stuff, built by long dead guys that mostly hated each other, especially Michealangelo, who then went on to show them all up. Raphael, who tried to make Mike look like a fool, died a few years later a defeated man. By the way, when Raphael was my age, he'd been dead for 10 years. So onto Egypt. What can ya say that hasn't been already. Bunch of guys with their hands out looking for tips. Pick up your bag at the airport, tip. Say hello, tip. constant barrage of would you like a carriage ride, taxi etc. But all in all a great trip. Took a balloon trip over the west bank of the Nile in Luxor. valley of the Kings, Queen Hauptshetpsut (they call her hot chicken soup). went back to the JW Marriott just cause se could in Cairo. went to the Cairo museum and the pyramids. Went into the middle pyramid just to say we did it.Hot. Dead horse on the side of the road near the canal next to the museum. Wonderful.
Cairo to Rome, spent the night. Rome to Dublin, caught the bus to the train and the train to Killarney. Killarney is wonderful. Thought we'd stay 3 nights, decided to stay 5. Just finished an 8 mile walk through the mountains (you'll get the pictures later). Starting to count down to our brief return to the states before heading to Hawaii. Geeze, what a sucky life. Anyway, if you haven't received the snapfish notice let me know (that's where the pic's are posted).
Hope your all having as much fun as we are
Me and Her

So, we were in Bologna Italy, in a very nice apt. but unfortunately it was time to move on. As I mentioned the new (1 night) apt was pretty close to the train station so after a lite breakfast we caught our train to Roma.
Pretty uneventful, mostly boring countryside.
Rome - The hotel that we thought we booked, wasn't booked. Luckily the hotel mgr. knew a girl next door that rented rooms. Not the greatest of accomodations (especially the last night, it was a sleeper sofa, with out even a fan in the room, and right on a busy street. Not too much sleep that night), but all in all it worked out well. We were ~2blocks from the Vatican. So we visited St Peter's basilica, the Sistine Chapel, the Castel San Angelo, the Trivi fountain and a host of other old things. We put in a lot of mileage on the shoes.
From Rome we set off for Cairo, not knowing what to expect. Very hectic, left us a little dazed. checked into the JW Marriot Cairo ( you can look it up to see it). VERY NICE! But we only spent 1 night, we were going to Luxor where are room cost less than cocktails in the bar at the JW.
Luxor - walked out and met a taxi driver that took us in hand and talked us into hiring him for 2days. I'm running out of internet time so I'm cutting off here.