Hey!
I'm really behind, as always. Still recounting what happened nearly a month ago, but I will catch up, someday soon.
Okay, so after the first weekend in France, I went to go visit one of my old roommates and friends from Cal, Ruby, and her boyfriend, Nazio! Ruby is/was living in Naples doing an internship and she left me with an open offer to come stay with her anytime I wanted. (And now, she is coming to visit me this weekend. It's so nice to have friends abroad.)
Anyways, I spent three full days in Italy and two half-days in various forms of transport. The first day I traveled as follows:
Toulon (France) --> train --> Nice (France) --> walk --> Nice airport --> plane --> Rome airport (Italy) -->shuttle train --> Rome Termini (train station) --> regional train --> Naples Centrale (train station) --> taxi --> Ruby and Nazio's apartment.
All of this took around 11 hours. Yup. When I said I was tired of traveling, I wasn't kidding.
The next day, Ruby had to work because it was a Friday so Nazio and I took a regional train about 45 minutes to Pompeii. I actually had no idea that Naples and Pompeii were so incredibly close. The scenery on the train was nice; it was definitely different from France and very much what I expected from Italy. That evening Ruby and I walked around the main shopping area of Naples. It was bustling even at 8 pm. Then we made pasta for dinner and went to bed. Here are some pictures!
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| Arrival in Naples! |
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| Fresh fish in the streets of Naples |
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| Pompeii! |
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| Ruins of Pompeii |
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| The Forum of Pompeii |
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| A fireplace in a house in Pompeii |
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| It was crazy how many houses there were. |
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| Counter of a restaurant (food would be inside the holes!) |
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| Streets of Pompeii |
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| Overheard a woman saying the the lower parts used to be an open-air sewer? |
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| Remains from Pompeii |
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| Another restaurant! |
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| People would eat in the back part of the restaurant (sometimes they would lie down in the Greek style) |
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| Coliseum |
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| I'm small in comparison |
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| The most chilling part were the casts of those who perished in the eruption of Vesuvius |
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| There's Mount Vesuvius (I think it's still active!) |
The next day we took the train to Caserta, where there is a huge palace, made for the Bourbon king of Naples. Here are some pictures. It was really beautiful and relaxing :) I felt like I could just ride my bike around it all day.
The photos all got kind of stuck together, hope you can still see them!
That evening we got pizza in a cooler neighborhood and looked down on a nice view of Mount Vesuvius.
Fun fact: In Italian, peperoni means red pepper not pepperoni!
Last Day! We stayed in Naples and just took a long walk around town, then went to dinner at a pasta place.
