On Monday evening, I travelled from Bologna to Naples. Which left me the entire day at my disposal, but unfortunately it didn't just rain, it poured, cats, dogs, and Tribbles for good measure.  And most of the museums were closed, plus I had already visited those I most wanted to see, and the one archive I had meant to go to on Monday originally was closed as well.

So I took the train to nearby Ravenna and did something I never had gotten around to; I saw the Byzantine mosaics there. Now I had already packed my suitcase and in it was my camera, which means you get only mobile phone photographs of Theodora, Justinian and Galla Placidia.  As it turned out, this was just as well, because I'm nearing my monthly bandwidth limited again, which means the photos of fair and foul Naples will have to wait until June. But cell phone photos of Ravenna were just within the limit.

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