Wednesday, February 27, 2013

First Family Drive!

Driving in Italy is very intimidating. There are a lot of rules that you need to follow but not many drivers follow them, so all you can do is just "go with the flow!" Anything goes on the road and there is no such thing as driving the flow of traffic because you will easily drive at 90+ mph. We stick to the safe speed of 70mph and that is REALLY slow. It's a little embarrassing.

It is strictly defensive driving with a touch of offense. For example, if you give eye contact, you are giving the right of way, however, if you just press the gas and drive you are at risk of being in an accident because someone will always try to squeeze by (they will "share" a lane with you). It's crazy and somewhat Indescribable.

Anywho...just giving you a little bit of a background on why it took us a few days before we put the kids in the car and took a drive around the area.

We have desperately been trying to find our church. If there was anything that was going to help us feel at home...it was going to be our church because God is always the same wherever you go.

It was a little bit of a challenge to find the church. We didn't have the coordinates for the church so we had to start off with heading out to the Pozzuoli area, then switch over to google maps on our iPhones to reach the approximate area of the church.

It was not an easy find. The church is on the rim of a volcano (Solfatara) and it is in a narrow side road that looks like an alley.

Driving down from the crater of the volcano to church.
 
 

 
Solfatara Crater
 
 
 
 
It felt soooo good to see this sign!!!
 

Yay...we found our church!!
 
 
Taking this from Andy's FB post...
"Our church is located directly above the city Paul visited in the Book of Acts in the New Testament...Acts 28 Verse 13..."And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli"...today that town is called Pozzuoli.

 
 

Our sweet girl!!!
 
 
Drive back to base...Mt Vesuvius is ahead.
 

After the long drive, we decided to stop at a local restaurant and eat some Italian food. I ordered the spaghetti and red sauce and the kids ordered Margherita Pizza!!

 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

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