Man oh man. This place turned into a circus when I was in bed last night. :coffee:
(How do I know? There's still elephant excrement all over the floor.)
I just started
A Season with Verona -- the damn thing was on back-order with Amazon for months.
The Miracle Castel di Sangro is good reading too, IMO. Serie C stuff -- could be the things of Juve's next season, no? :doh: If you can get around the fact that the author comes off as a know-it-all, holier-than-thou, arrogrant, bad-stereotype-American prick and a half, it's definitely recommended. And given the book's ending, it's pretty topical these days.
Didn't make it to Herculaneum myself, but want to. Pompeii was crowded (and dumping rain) when I last went, but I did like it for the access you had without any heavy-handed history lessons. We all know what happened there and don't need the sledgehammer to drive it home in our skulls. I need to go back to Napoli to crack that nut anyway; now that I've learned how to survive street scammers and gouging taxi drivers the first time around, I might enjoy it more without fearing for my safety.
...And without being subject to investigation by a magistrate.
Oh, and Nick, remember those TV commercials for Palmolive where
Madge tells the stunned manicur-ee, "You're soaking in it" ... as the woman is unaware that her hand is submersed in a puddle of green goo?
Well, you're soaking in it.