Rome

Today we took a two hour train all the way down into Naples, under the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius. Unfortunately little good can be said of Naples as I have seen rubbish tips cleaner and more organised. Despite itself Naples has a reasonable museum - the Neapolitan Archaeological Museum, containing many artifacts recovered from Pompey nearby. For most of us, the highlight was certainly the "Cabineto Secreto"(spelling?) - the secret room, a room reserved only for those with the utmost moral integrity on account of the explicit nature of its contents. Contained within were the icons of the ancient worship of the phallus, which were, in my humble opinion, ridiculously, nay ludicrously funny. Regrettably the train to Pompeii was cancelled and we were unable to get there but Mr. Buckingham reckons that we should be able to fit it in tomorrow morning

Harry Kleyer