Naples, Pompeii & Capri

On Saturday I was in the train station by 7:30, and bought a ticket down to Naples, with a coupla other kids from TURome. After a two hour train ride, I took another short ride to Pompeii; a Roman city that was completely ruined and buried by the eruption of the Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 A.D.

victim, covering his face with a scarf.

beautiful micro-mosaic

pompeii's version of the colosseum

and the lemons there were bigger than my brain.

And then there was Naples. Cool I guess, but still pretty trashed.

trash

i wish this wasn't blury! 4 people on a moped!

neopolitan pizza :)


castles, apparently?

I spent the night at an interesting little hostel- it was fine except for the fact that one of my roommates was the most obnoxious snorer EVER- thankfully someone else in the room couldn't take being stuck awake anymore and gave a loud, fake "ACHOOO!" and woke the snorer up, so they stopped- and I said "thank you!"

good morning

cannoli for breakfast!

on the cruise-ship sized ferry

After an hour and a half, I arrived on the island of Capri, and it was a gorgeous day. The only thing that was disappointing about the trip was that the island's main attraction- a cave on the sea called the "Blue Grotto," was closed that day; the water on that side of the island was too rough :( But anyway, I did a boat tour of the other side of the island, which was really cool.

water is so clear!

a big hole- that the Romans pushed people out of or something?

the white grotto

natural arc




you could see fish & jellyfish =)


must be nice??!!







huge cactuses!

walked half-way across the island
to the natural arc up-close

:)


Anacapri





please, don't burn down the trees.

I walked from Anacapri to the Blue Grotto

As close as I got.


Couldn't quite see inside...



grabbed lunch with some new friends

Great weekend!