Day 3: Orientation and neighborhood walk / Roman Art and Archeology / Survival Italian
Breakfast: Buffet breakfast at the hotel.
Morning: Staff introduces program schedule, lectures and excursions. A short walk in the neighborhood follows pointing out stores, pharmacies and banking services. The walk continues down to the characteristic old port where it's not uncommon to see fishermen bringing in the catch of the day or repairing their nets.
Lunch: Lunch at the hotel.
Afternoon: Discover how the Romans appropriated Greek art forms to their own tastes. An art historian illustrates examples from evidence discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Dinner: Dinner at local restaurant. Learn the basics of communicating in Italian in a fun and informal session after dinner.
Thought I would simplify things by reusing data from RS web site or "class" handouts. Yes, we had classroom sessions. We were fortunate that Jan Mollo had arranged for us to have wireless receivers with earphones to hear her over the sounds of traffic or in places where a loud presentation is frowned upon. You can see Jan her with her microphone on describing the arrangements of the main shopping thoroughfare.
Jan Mollo - RS tour coordinator
Note, she mentions it is closed to vehicle traffic after 7 p.m. This allows many of us to freely traverse both sides of the street looking for those great deals. We were all eager to use our new found Italian word – sconto – discount??? The videos may not play on some cell phones and ipods. Seems to work OK on computers.
Google search: societa operaia di mutuo soccorso, Sorrento, Italy
http://www.fozimage.com/fozlogs.htm
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/16560157
Roman Art and Archeology - Linda O'Brien - sorry no video - room too dark to show slides.
Survival Italian - Michela Porcelli
Wow, just too much visual, as well as gustatory stimulation. My new motto – eat, drink and take lots of photos. The complete 25 day trip totaled over 17,000 photos – no, not a typo. I “narrowed” down the selection to 2,200 photos in the Picasa web albums. So if a pictures is worth a thousand words, then 2 million plus words makes a very BIG book :-)
If you have questions as to any photos, send me an e-mail to my address from the original note. I have setup the weblog NOT to allow comments. Prior attempts to control off-color comments required this decision. Hope you can appreciate the effort an thought that goes into making the transformation from what comes from a camera or other equipment – about 100 gigabytes into a blog that with all 2,200 photos into about 100 megabytes. My attempt is to make your download and viewing what I am presenting in a way that allows for most internet connections for reasonable upload of the pages.
For example, this 1 minute excerpt of Jan describing our orientation walk started as a 200+ megabyte file. I did some “transcoding” into iPhone/iPod format and still had an 8 megabyte file. I opted to upload to Google blogspot site as a cell phone .3gp file @ 700 kilobytes, about 1/10 of the other smaller option. Needless to say, I want my “customers” to get their money’s worth. Oh, I am not getting paid? Yes I did. You all shared your valuable time with me – thank you :-)
Breakfast: Buffet breakfast at the hotel.
Morning: Staff introduces program schedule, lectures and excursions. A short walk in the neighborhood follows pointing out stores, pharmacies and banking services. The walk continues down to the characteristic old port where it's not uncommon to see fishermen bringing in the catch of the day or repairing their nets.
Lunch: Lunch at the hotel.
Afternoon: Discover how the Romans appropriated Greek art forms to their own tastes. An art historian illustrates examples from evidence discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Dinner: Dinner at local restaurant. Learn the basics of communicating in Italian in a fun and informal session after dinner.
Thought I would simplify things by reusing data from RS web site or "class" handouts. Yes, we had classroom sessions. We were fortunate that Jan Mollo had arranged for us to have wireless receivers with earphones to hear her over the sounds of traffic or in places where a loud presentation is frowned upon. You can see Jan her with her microphone on describing the arrangements of the main shopping thoroughfare.
Jan Mollo - RS tour coordinator
Google search: societa operaia di mutuo soccorso, Sorrento, Italy
http://www.fozimage.com/fozlogs.htm
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/16560157
Roman Art and Archeology - Linda O'Brien - sorry no video - room too dark to show slides.
Survival Italian - Michela Porcelli
Wow, just too much visual, as well as gustatory stimulation. My new motto – eat, drink and take lots of photos. The complete 25 day trip totaled over 17,000 photos – no, not a typo. I “narrowed” down the selection to 2,200 photos in the Picasa web albums. So if a pictures is worth a thousand words, then 2 million plus words makes a very BIG book :-)
If you have questions as to any photos, send me an e-mail to my address from the original note. I have setup the weblog NOT to allow comments. Prior attempts to control off-color comments required this decision. Hope you can appreciate the effort an thought that goes into making the transformation from what comes from a camera or other equipment – about 100 gigabytes into a blog that with all 2,200 photos into about 100 megabytes. My attempt is to make your download and viewing what I am presenting in a way that allows for most internet connections for reasonable upload of the pages.
For example, this 1 minute excerpt of Jan describing our orientation walk started as a 200+ megabyte file. I did some “transcoding” into iPhone/iPod format and still had an 8 megabyte file. I opted to upload to Google blogspot site as a cell phone .3gp file @ 700 kilobytes, about 1/10 of the other smaller option. Needless to say, I want my “customers” to get their money’s worth. Oh, I am not getting paid? Yes I did. You all shared your valuable time with me – thank you :-)
Days 22 to 25+ @ https://picasaweb.google.com/magwheel44/P32011ItalyIstanbulDays22To25
See Day 4 @ http://pizza-and-popes-2011.blogspot.com/2011/11/p3-day-4-of-25-thursday-september-22.html
Enjoy each day is it were... the best! Marion & Carol
See Day 4 @ http://pizza-and-popes-2011.blogspot.com/2011/11/p3-day-4-of-25-thursday-september-22.html
Enjoy each day is it were... the best! Marion & Carol
