I have been in Italy for quite a few weeks now but never before have I felt like such a tourist, I mean we carried around those stupid earphone tour guide systems ALL weekend.
Rome:
We took a train to Rome on Thursday night and had a wonderful 3 course meal at a restaurant near our Hotel after arriving there, I'm still not quite used to Italian dinner time but I'm working on it. It is normal for Italian's to not start eating dinner until about 8:30pm and then sit there for 3 hours and I'm just not used to that, its an interesting change.
On Friday we explored The Vatican, which was absolutely amazing. I could stare at the walls of the Sistine chapel and the inside of St. Peter's Basilica for ages. We had a pretty good tour guide that explained everything about the Vatican very well and I found it all interesting. After exploring the Vatican we visited the Spanish Steps, The Pantheon, The Trevi Fountain (which is disappointingly under construction until the end of 2015), Piazza Navona and Castel Sant'Angelo.
On Saturday we toured the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill. I have always love Greek and Roman mythology so these tours were awesome, I just wish we would have had more time to explore a little bit on our own. We were on a time crunch because we had a train to Naples later that day so the tour was a nit rushed. I'm really glad I get to go back with my family when I meet them in Rome after my program ends, hopefully I will get to explore a bit more, Rome is HUGE.
Naples:
On Saturday after the Colosseum we took a two hour train to Naples to check in to our hotel, do a quick tour around the top of the city and eat some pizza for dinner in the city where pizza was born. All of us were completely exhausted at this point and though our tour guide for Naples was really cool and the views were fantastic, I wish we wouldn't have had to fit so much in one day. At this point we walked over 50,000 steps in just 2 days, crazy right!
On another note Naples definitely had the best pizza I have ever had, it was delicious and having a nice casual dinner was great.
Capri:
Right when we got there we took a private boat tour to the Blue Grotto, the water was so blue it looked like blue kool- aid, it was awesome. From there we tour our boat on a little tour around most of the island to see the cliffs and look for mountain goats :)
The boat tour was lovely, I missed being out on the water, Florence doesn't really have any lakes or beaches.
For the rest of the day we pretty much just got to explore Capri, it was relaxing and really beautiful. Just like most of the places I've been to so far I want to go back.
Sorrento:
After Capri we stood in line to get on a ferry boat to Sorrento... and we got poured on. Bythe time we all got on the ferry boat my whole outfit was soaked!
In Sorrento we had a lovely seafood dinner, I even had clams (which is a new one for me). Sorrento was pretty but we didn't have much time there so I didn't get to see much.
Pompeii:
I feel like I learned a lot in Pompeii, it was interesting to see how people lived back then and the aqueduct system that is all over Italy is insane. With some of the amazing innovations I saw I almost wonder if society has gone backwards slightly.
It was an exhausting but incredible weekend! I learned a ton and walks at least 35 miles in like 3 and a half days. I'm sorry if this post is rather boring in comparison to some of my others, we just fit so much in to so little time that there was a lot to talk about!
This weekend I am off to Split, Croatia and Krka National Park with my roommate Nicole. I plan on going white water rafting, on a boat tour and exploring the city of Split and some of the sites that Game of Thrones was filmed at, can't wait!!!
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