All road lead to Rome... then Naples... then Athens...

Well sort of. I guess we flew to Athens, so that doesn't quite count as roads, but you could get here by road... just takes a long time. We took a train from Avignon to Toulon, then a ferry to Civitavicchi, and a bus to Rome. We only had a day in Rome, and pretty much just got to see the Coliseum and have a real Italian dinner (Manicotti of course, which by the way is not actually available in Italy, but a very similar dish called Cannelloni is... found that out after bypassing like 10 restaurants.) I've got pictures, but again, can't get my own computer online to upload them. Naples (Napoli) was interesting, dirty, but the hostel was great. The biggest annoyance with that town was that on the train, there was so much graffiti that you couldn't see what stop you were at because it had literally been painted over. But Pompeii was interesting... wandering a dead city. They actually have a few of the bodies on display, bones covered in ash. Almost surreal. And yes, danny, it did make me feel even more like Bones to be looking at them.

We flew from Napoli to Athens this morning, was nice and simple. From what I've seen, airport security is nothing here; amazing what happens when you don't set out to make half the world despise you as a country. The flight was short, and not as expensive as it could have been. Even found English books in the airport (going nuts for reading material at the moment), but they wanted 12E for paperbacks... not even quality prints. There's supposed to be some English bookstores here, checking that out tomorrow. Well, thats bout it. I'll post pictures soon.