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 We took the long way home and flew to Frankfurt yesterday for a 2-night stay.  We first roamed Naples for a few hours before casting the cab to the airport. Every walking trip revealed more unusual shops and sites, but we felt ready to say goodbye. We had a long discussion about one of our first ever blog posts, a post about Justin Bieber being paged at the Phoenix airport.  The flight he was being paged to was headed to Ontario, his home town.  We did some research and found his travel schedule that month, co firming he wasn’t in concert and he often flies commercial instead of by private jet.  We also confirmed the census data that there are only 8 Justin Biebers in the US, so encountering one is extremely rare. As we were just all concluding that the probability of us having encountered the famous Justin Bieber there was high, the hotel music changed songs.  The breakfast patio room started playing multiple adult contemporary remixes of Justin Bieber so...

 On our last full day of Naples, we spent a long hard day seeing more sites starting with the Archaeology Museum. While we have been to many museums with Ancient Roman and Greek artifacts, the Naples museum is a standout. Pompeii and Herculaneum so perfectly preserved the daily goods and art of the 1st century AD, using one’s imagination to fill in what life was like is vastly simpler. The museum has a horde of Roman treasures. Interestingly, the Greek artifacts were outstanding as well. The Greeks founded multiple civilizations in Southern Italy before eventually succumbing to Rome.  Jane enjoyed riding backward in the cab to the museum. A relative scarcity of bronze artifacts from ancient Roman and Greek collections was the result of the middle age blacksmiths melting down anything metal they could find after the collapse of a trading economy. The Swiss cheese holes in the Coliseum are from scavengers who removed the metal clips holding column pieces together. Pompeii and He...