Rome Day One

On our first day we took a walk up to St Peters Basillica and then walked along the river. Here are some photos taken on the walk:

 St Peters from a distance:

 Columns leading to St Peters:

Taking a walk down the river from St Peters:

There are attractions everywhere:

A mime that doesn't move:

A women on a motor scooter texting at a stop sign:

Somewhere on our walk we ran into a church with a beautiful ceiling..(not hard to do in Italy)

We took a bus over to the famous fountain..it was surounded with people:

 This is the best photo I could get at the time:

When I got home I had to take the people out of the photo..not bad.

Isn't software wonderful..This was done with a little ipad app called Touch Retouch.

Then we took a long walk (seemed like it) up to the famous Spanish Steps:

Couldn't take the people out of this one..haha

Syracuse, Sicily,Italy

The Cruise ship entered the port in Syracuse, Italy..It was an interesting old town..Here are some photographs to give you an idea of what it is like in Syracruse. These benchs border the port harbor.

Some of the streets are very narrow

A mime on the street with a cigarette in his mouth

 Piazza del Duomo

One of the ceiling views in Duomo

Restaurant across the street from del Duomo

 View From the Cruise Ship

 Some of my painterly effects

That evening there was a party on the cruise ship deck.. here are a couple of photos:

They are stone sober.

Taormina,Sicily, Italy

Our next port stop was in Taormina, Sicily... We took a cab up to the town area. Here are some photos I took while walking around town:

 A stairway to heavenly food.

 A Dreamer

 A couple of retired buddies

He better wake up or he will miss a sale.

A cruise ship must have arrived.

Greek ruins at the end of town..

I took some photos overlooking the bay from the ruins:

Volcanic Mt Etna in Italy

Sorrento, Italy

Sorrento is a beautiful town with ferry's and roads that lead to a lot of other nice places like the Amalfi coast.

Here is a photograph taken from the cruise ship while we were entering the Sorrento harbor:

We walked up to the top of the cliffs in order to see the town:

View of Sorrento bay and the cruise ship.

 The above views were taken from the cruise ship

Fun on the deck of the ship

The following are a couple of photographs of the final evening party in Sorrento:

Next Month our week in Rome, Italy

Cruising Sicily in Italy

We took the train from Florence to Civitavecchia to board the cruise ship 

Azamara Quest

On the way to the cruise ship I spotted this statue on the beach

I talked someone into taking our photograph as we entered the ship

Here are some photographs taken on the cruise ship:

First port we stopped at Corsica , a french island

Inside a Catholic Church

A painterly effect of an older man checking out a restaurant

The French and Italians like to smoke cigaretts.

A nun walking up the street towards the church

Local Food Market

View of the back of a residence