Napoli, Italy

Napoli 

Well, we spent days 3-5 in and around Napoli. Considering days 3 and 5 were spent on our two hour train ride! I absolutely love the train, something about traveling by train and seeing the land is the best thing to me. I just wish there were more trains available to take in the United States especially in and around MN. 

So Napoli the city itself wasn't that appealing. Gino's pizza was fantastic plus the Christmas street, it is Christmas all year in this street. But you will see many chilly pepper ordiments because they are good for boosting fertility in a couple. But I did need to be careful to watch where I stepped because there is a huge population of stray dogs, which means their business is all over the streets along with the trash, John compared it to Queens, New York....but I strongly recommend staying at Giovanni's hostel. It is in the perfect location plus Giovanni himself was wonderful! He gave us a short history lesson along with writing up colorful map with the places to see and the mafia area's to avoid, he even made us dinner once with a cooking lesson! 

Outside of Napoli, we traveled to the island of Capri. It was beautiful! The water was this indigo blue color and just beautiful! When we got back to the hostel after our trip to Capri, Giovanni invited us to eat lunch with him and a few others in the hostel! His pasta was delicious!

That evening we met two girls, Cate and Bekah, from the USA as well but they are studying in France. We went out for gelato and chatted with them and walked along the pier/coast the view was breath taking! 

The next outing we made was to the Volcano Vesssss and Pompeii which was one of the cities covered by ash after the volcano exploded. We got the opportunity to climb up and look into the volcano, sadly it didn't have any lave bubbling all we saw was rocks and some steam. I was a bit disappointed. We travel to the volcano with Denis, he was staying at our hostel with us and he is from London. 

Pompeii was amazing! There was so much history and to see the city, bodies, homes after the explosion was a interesting experience. The homes, kitchens, streets in Pompeii were so modern and I could see things that that we still use in our homes today. 

Well back to Rome tomorrow! Tata till later <3