Napoli and Pompeii

Pompei from a wall.

I wrote this one a stone bench while waiting for my train home to Rome, so I apologize if it isn't up to par. My back is hunched over, my legs are aching, and my notepad bends away at every letter I write, supported only by my knee.

Anyway, I kind of want tot write an hourly account of my time in naples, because we did quite a bit.

4:30 am Wake up, get ready
5:15 am Meet Jenne at the portone, walk to Termini
5:30 am Jenne realizes she's forgotten her passport, heads back.
6:00 am Shannon and I arrive at Termini
6:30 am We find Jenne and board the train
9:00 am Arrive at Pompeii, and walk to the ruins (apparently we had arrived at the wrong station, which was about a 20 minute walk away). Meet a guy named Drew from Chicago (though he now studies Economics in California). This made the walk much easier to handle. We found Pompeii thanks to Jenne's handy GPS map.
9:30 am Reach Pompeii's ruins, and start walking around. Highlights included the arena, amphitheatre, houses, ancient snack bars, many atria, the forum, and dead people. Shannon and Jenne cooking at a snack bar in pompeii, as the Romans would.

One of the many atria we saw

12:30 Shannon and Jenne have lunch at the cafeteria there. I am too cheap to buy their unfairly overpriced food.Jenne and Shannon at the Forum


Mount Vesuvius looms over its prey.

1:00 Continue wandering around Naples, but with less gusto and more breaks, as we are quite tired.Me at the Forum

Juggling at the Forum


3:30 Board Circumvisuvia to Naples.
4:00 Arrive in Naples, go through the maze of metros to get to the hostel.
The colorful church and an apartment near our hostel

4:30 Arrive at hostel, drop stuff off and head out to walk around Naples.Some boats in Naples, with Mt. Vesuvius in the background.

8:00 Finish off our long walk in Naples with pizza from Pizza Gorizzio, a pizzeria that's been open since 1916.

9:00 Juggle for about a half hour, get ready for bed.
10:00 Collapse.