Blogs from Capri, Campania, Italy, Europe - page 6

Buongiorno, Sorry it has taken me a couple of days to write my blog on Pompeii, Capri, and Napoli, but I was so tired from the weekend I needed to rest! On Friday morning a double decker bus picked all 71 of us up at 7:00 a.m. and we drove straight to Pompeii. Well.. actually we did stop at a rest stop. Now these rest stops do not have bathrooms like we are used to, they have toilettes that have no seat and no toilette paper (I luckily brought some Kleenex in my purse). So pretty much the bathroom was my worst nightmare come true, but I did go pee and wet napped my entire body clean after. Finally we arrived in Pompeii, volcano Mount Vesuvius still lingers in the background, now dormant, but not extinct. ... read more

Today we went to the Isle of Capri (apparently pronounced KAH-pree, not kah-PREE...) The ferry ride on the way over was pretty bad... the ferry was packed and completely enclosed with no air, and it was so hot. I was feeling pretty sick by the time we arrived, and the fumes from all the buses and boats at the marina did not help. Capri was literally over-run with people, you couldn't even walk down the street without running into someone. It's the playground of the rich and famous, with all of the Gucci, Prada, insert something else Paris Hilton wears here shops, and I had no interest in any of that whatsoever. Though I did feel like a movie star when I ordered a glass of lemonade then got my bill for 6.50 euros (the equivalent ... read more

Capri weekend Europe » Italy » Capri By travererJune 5th 2007 We went to capri for the weekend. it was amazing, and the scenary was gorgeous! today we went to the capitoline museum...the oldest public museum in the world. there were a lot of great pieces of sculpture from the roman empire. afterward we went to the roman forum, the birthplace of the republican form of government the U.S. uses today. Our walking tour we had last week on thursday was good too. we went to the pantheon which was amazing...i took a ton of pictures inside...only to learn later we weren't allowed to. we walked throught the jewish ghetto which had some good sights. i'll include some pictures of capri and around the city of rome. ... read more

Today we spent most of our time on Capri. Last night, Greg spent an hour trying to figure out how to see Capri in the morning and Paestum in the afternoon. It would have worked, but the public transportation didn't run as advertized. First, the bus from our hotel into Sorrento took at least half an hour, and it was jam packed with mostly locals who got off at many various stops. We got off at the train station, where we planned to catch a bus down to the ferry port. I had planned to get off at the main square, Piazza Tasso, and do the same, but there was another couple from our hotel headed out to Capri, too, and they seemed to know what they were doing. Whether they were right or wrong, we ... read more

Little bit of history on this tiny island. This was once the home of Roman Emporer Tiberius. The monastery next to our hotel was founded in 1371 -- the site where Tiberius once ruled Rome. The monastery is now a private school. We were told by our tour guide today that when Tiberius would get sick of any of his many wives, he would quite simply throw them off the cliff. At least those gals had a nice view going down. (sick, I know...but it's late) We took some gorgeous pictures today of one of the most beautiful places we've ever seen. Our tour guide, Fabio took us to Anacapri, the island's other town at the top. We sat poolside and enjoyed the view a little more after of course, more shopping, gelato, and cappucinos. ... read more