This weekend after our day in Rome we went to Sorrento and Capri...with a pit stop in Pompeii.
Our wonderful trip started off with craziness!! With a freak blizzard in Rome and a wonderful train ride to Napoli where we all stood for an hour and a half of a 3 hour journey. lol Big problem...was it was the last train to Napoli for that day and it was like after time to go home for everyone. It was a great and fun experience though.
We got to Napoli and finally ate some lunch...which none of us had eaten anything at all that day...expect I was prepared because I thought of my stomach and had like these great like snack pastries with a chocolate filling in them. So I gave everyone half of that on the train and help hold us till we got to Napoli. We got lunch and figured out the next train to take to get to Sorrento. We got onto that made our way, Pompeii is like half way in between Napoli and Sorrento. We were already tired, cold, and still wet! So we got to Pompeii, we literally got off...took a pic of Vasuvious and the entrance to the museum because it just closed and got on the next train and went on to Sorrento. We were all so tired!
The picture of me with the mountain behind me is in fact Mt. Vesuvius, I am just at Sorrento when the pic was taken. We took a boat from Sorrento to Capri, which was a very cool and nice relaxing trip over. When we got over there we were all just so excited that we had no plans! No walking around museums just doing whatever we wanted to do.
So we first looked at the shops because right as you get off the boat there are tons of shops! Where we all tried limoncello...which WOW!! Some strong stuff!!
Then we walked up these stupid steps all the way up to the towns center...which the view was amazing!! With ton of shops, and name brand products. Of course because of the time of year most of them were closed due to the fact that it is not really tourist season yet. Which made it nicer because it was not so crazy! We then just walked around and saw the beauty of Capri...which wow!! If I could live in Italy permanently...which I could defiantly do right now!! I would stay in Capri!!
We all ended up kind of splitting up and going different directions and, Michelle R, Megan and I ended up on an observation platform over looking a part of Capri! It was the most beautiful view ever!! The water was blue and was hitting the coast of Capri! Amazing!! After that we figured it would be a good idea to get some food and Then we had lunch at this great restaurant...which was amazing!! So good!! I had ravioli! So good!!
While going to lunch we all got back together, we all just walked around. Then we split up again one group going to see the coast and then the other we went to the shops by the port and then went ahead back to Sorrento early so we could go shopping.
It was a great night! We ate dinner that night at this amazing like gelato/cafe place. I had pizza...which was good...but the pizza in Castiglion...so good!!! After dinner we walked around some more, which was cool because Sorrento was having like a festival and everyone was out and it was just so neat to experience and see! Along with that we shopped some more and I bought shoes!!!! for only 20 EUROs, I had...because they were shinny and they are Italian shoes!!!
After walking around...getting a few things...we were all tired and went back to our hostel. We almost went out to experience the night life of Sorrento but we all managed to get ready for bed and go to sleep...because we did have 9 hours of traveling on trains to get back to Casitiglion the next day.
We all sleeped in the next day...leaving the hostel at 10, walking around town a little then heading back to the train station waiting till the train to arrive and leave at 1237. Which we took the train from Sorrento to Napoli which took like an hour...then waited in Napoli for an hour...which we quickly got food and got on our train because we wanted to get seats and not stand! Which was fine because the train was not full at all! lol That train ride from Napoli to Roma was 3 hours...then we had like 1.5 hours in Roma till our train back to Casitiglion that left at 1845. So we got gelato, food...and started to freak out because we couldn't find anyone that knew where platform 1 PE was....but we finally figured that out...getting us on the train back home at like 930. With us walking in the door at 10 PM. lol Yeah...Sunday was a true travel day!!
This week is just classes with photography finally starting!! I am so excited about that! This weekend we are going to try and go to Deruta again which is famous for its pottery!
At this moment as well we are planning a trip to Madrid for 25th. That seemed like a lot of rambling...but man has it been a long and crazy week and weekend!! Till I write again!
Ciao!
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