Blogs from Campania, Italy, Europe - page 104

it's been forever! i know. i'm terribly sorry, but have no fear! there has been tons going on! this past weekend was another lovely group trip, this time to Sorrento, Capri, and Pompeii. it's about time we get to have a little sun with our vacation!.. ha, joking.. don't kill me. so first of all, the bus ride there = beautiful. i know i was sleeping for some of it, but it was still amazing. we don't have many mountains in jersey. mountains.. thin on the ground, thin in the air, just generally pretty trim. but here they are wonderful! and as we got to the area of naples all of a sudden we were right on the coast, and still in the mountains. these mountains literally run right into the water and it is absolutely ... read more

this is the first time that my entries flow seamlessly into one another. you know, i could have simply made one entry for the whole weekend, but that wouldn't have been as fun. i'm driven to post from as many different places as possible. capri is gorgeous. there isn't really a good beach to go to, so if you're looking for hours tanning on a beach this certainly isn't the place for you. the beaches are few and far between since the island mostly has cliffs for edges, and when there are beaches they are super rocky. we only spent a couple hours there, and i could have done with a little more time. i definitely suggest taking a boat ride to the blue grotto, and if you have time a boat ride around the entire ... read more

Ha ha! Ha hahahaha! Gimme a sec to get it all out of my system....hahahaha!!! :) Ok, I'm done now. Sorry bout that, but the notion of Italians actually FOLLOWING road rules is highly laughable. Truly. Ha ha. Ok, really, I'm done. Let me explain... Driving along in Pasquale's car, holding on for dear life and watching my knuckles turn a pasty white (which was undoubtedly the colour of my face before it turned blue as we were approaching the top of Vesuvius), I learnt the following about Italian road rule, or, rather, lack of them. Sticking to your lane? -- What lanes? It's a free for all Giving way? -- What the hell for? Just speed up and you're bound to find a gap in the traffic Indicating? -- Oh, we thought that was just ... read more

I think this was the craziest day of my life so far! I took the train down to Naples to spend my birthday there with my friend John. I spent the morning wandering throught the crowded street market just off of Piazza Garibaldi. When John arrived, we took a cab down to the port to have lunch near the sea. On the ride down, we are stopped at a stop light, and this vespa pulls up between our cab and the car next to us. The car next to us has their window rolled down, and the guy on the back of the vespa jumps off and steals the woman's purse right out of her hand. Then he jumps back on the vespa and the two guys take off. I couldn't believe what I had just ... read more

We decided to wake up really early today so we could get going. Sleeping in on vacation is great unless you actually want to get things done. So the alarm went off at 6:15 a.m. Hmmm I think we finally left the hotel at 9:00 a.m. but we were able to fit breakfast in and I was able to update a blog or two. We started towards the train and of course I got us lost for a few minutes. Sorrento is a small town on a hill with lots of winding roads that change quickly and they all look the same, but we eventually got there. Our destination today was Pompei. For those of you not familiar with Pompeii’s history, on the morning of August 24, AD 79, a deadly cloud of volcanic ash from ... read more