Hale (DD 642) - Naval Cruise Book

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3Jhk,i jL • -VJ. , . At Naples we were lucky enough to be tied up alongside a pier. Immediately swarms of Italians came aboard trying to sell gloves dolls and cameoes. The eyes of the women seemed to straighten out, and everyone was ready for some good liberty. I went ashore and had a big pizza with spaghetti and washed it down with wine. To get away from the kids in the street who followed you everywhere I got on a tour to nearby Mount Vesuvius. It was too cold to go to Capri. I didn ' t have the money to go to Rome myself, but one of my buddies went and told me all about it.

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But all in all he thought the high point of the tour was the aud- ience the Pope gave in St. Peters. The beauty of the ceremony is hard to describe, photograph. hope you can get a little of what I mean by this mm Aj j jflTj j ♦4HGW 1 1 - lUUKu u, if., n iff i. . v ■}n ty.