Blogs from Naples, Campania, Italy, Europe - page 23

OH BY THE WAY!! Europe » Italy » Napoli By Tara and ShayJune 8th 2007 we forgot to mention....we saw the pope. TWICE :) once on the day that he almost got jumped...and once the day after when we went into st. peter's basilica. he was reading what we assumed to be the bible while people held it up for him...and little boys held candle sticks that they used to scratch their noses...seriously. it was pretty cool. just thought we'd share that little tid bit of info. we made it to naples. our hostel is pretty sweet. kinda far away from everything but thats fine...cause i guess naples city center is pretty shady. miss you all!! tara and shay p.s. no pictures yet cause our hostel doesn't have acc... read more

Curses! Foiled again by public transportation! This morning, we set no alarm, but were still up at 7:30. We had to pack our suitcases with some more souvineers, so it took a bit longer than usual. Still, we were ready by 9:30. After dragging our bags to the top of the stairs, we learned that we had just missed a bus and it would be 45 minutes until the next one. But we used the time to enjoy the view and read more in our guidebooks. After we finally got down the hill, we had to wait another 30 minutes for the Circumvesuviana, which itself took over an hour to reach Naples. Finally, we checked into our hotel at 1:30. It was difficult to find, as their directions given online were extremely vague. They also gave ... read more

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No bus to Vesuvius This is not a regular travelblog of mine, but I was reminded of our experience of Italian taxi-drivers when I read Shaheema Shaw's blog "Madam, Only Rs.40 to Nowhere" about a Chennai auto-driver. This was way back in the summer of1989 when we had taken a Eurail tour. We had planned to visit Vesuvius that day and had arrived at the Ercolano Scavi station from Naples. It was about 2:15 PM and I had read from Fodor's that there are regular buses to the top of Vesuvius every 2 hours. (No widespread Internet usage in India in those days.) We wanted to take the 2:30 PM bus. Ercolano was a sleepy little station in those days. There were only three taxis outside the station. As soon as we stepped out of the ... read more

Saturday: I got up at 5:30 to get ready for my trip to Pompeii. Matt and Tommy ended up going with me on the group trip, getting to go for free since several people didnt show who had already paid for a spot. We played cards and slept most of the way there--the scenery on the drive was beautiful, many more mountains than our area! When we arrived in Pompeii we took a guided tour of the city, which was really neat but somewhat abbreviated because of the rain that started about the same time we arrived. We got to see the house of Romulus and Remus and a ton of really neat artificats while in the city as well as touring all throughout. After the tour we went to a nearby resturant where they had ... read more