Hotel Giovanna Pompei

Nous avons pris l'autobus publique pour atteindre le sommet du vesus, le volcan n'a pas tellement a offrir, mais la vue sur la bay est vraiment belle. Ensuite, nous avons visités les ruines d'Herculaneom. Une autre ville disparue sous l'eruption du vesus il y a pres de 2000 ans. il y a encore beaucoup de travail d'archeologie en cours, mais on peut voir que la ville est meiux conserver, il y a meme des batiments de 2 et 3 etages et des pieces de bois qui ont traversé le temps !

... TravelPod" is a complete pain in the a@$ to use. For our 2010 "Radical Sabbatical" trip to Asia, I'm switching to another web service.

But, I've promised myself that I'll update this blog before we leave Naples...

Ola Kala: simply, OK (in Greek). No time for lots of flap.....we're on the go. The Vatican Museums await us (and we can hardly wait to do more walking!). Enjoy the pictures and we'll fill you in on the adventure next time I make the time to sit and gab.

We're still having a grand time!!!!!

Pompeii photos here:
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Sunday caught the train out to Pompei which was ginormous!
I think we only saw ...

... to Naples was really nice, passing through seemingly endless seas of vineyards flashing by at high speed.
Welcome Inn Hostel in Naples was cool too. An apartment converted into hostel but with good common area and roomy enough dorms.

Wandered around Naples and really like this city. Most exciting one so far in Italy. Some people had said not to go to Naples cause it was dirty and dangerous. Glad I didn't listen as it's my favourite city in ...

... another single girl on the trip!

Pompei was mind blowing.. There is not much there except the skeletons of houses etc but just the thought they put into sewerage, water and general planning of the city.. you could imagine though the carts trundling down the paved roads, people at fountains etc... businesses opening up etc. Its166 acres in size, we only looked at some of the places, some is still under ...

... on it a while wondering why it wasn't going. Turns out this train station has platform 2 and platform 2 Tronco...and they are not the same thing :/ So, while we were waiting on the train that didn't go anywhere, we missed the train we wanted. We ended up finding another one that said it stopped in Pompei on its way to Rome. Well that didn't happen either, and we made it all the way to Napoli (still don't know why it didn't stop like it said). We then ...

... how real the event was. we saw bodies that were burned and solidified by the ash that fell from the volcanic eruption. it was so sad, we saw a dog all curled up because it was chained and could not escape, a man with his hands burring his face accepting the eruption, and a twenty year old girl who was laying on her stomach like she was ducking. the city was excavated starting in 1748. the people of Pompei believed that ...

... but I liked the surprise of what it was really like. On a side note, the area of Pompei had the largest lemons i have ever seen in my life, they were about the size of large cantaloupes. I should have bought one simply to say that i bought a lemon that big lol. Anyways, we got lucky and some other students dragged us into the ruins, I guess we got the times mixed up and we could have missed out on the ruins completely. Once we got inside we all gathered in the ...

Arriving in Naples & Pompei February 26 &27 We spent most of the day traveling between Florence and Naples, and boy was Naples a shock compared to Florence. Florence is very compact and fairly orderly. You can see beautiful things everywhere you turn. It also was super touristy. We heard lots of English there. Naples, on the other hand, was chaotic and dirty. Scooters and cars whizzed by as you struggled to get through ...