The Streets of Pompeii!

After we flew from Greece to Rome, we immediately jumped on a train headed for Pompeii. Upon arriving in Pompeii we found a campsite that was an excellent deal! Only €10 for the night and that included showers! We set up our tent and headed to the closest pizza joint for our first go at Italian pizza. The place looked promising with its real pizza oven pumping out pie after pie for the people of Pompeii. The pizza was only €7 and fed both of us easily.

We woke up the next day eager to visit Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius. We were a bit surprised when the entrance fee was €24 euro for the two of us. We were able to get a student discount in Athens but not here. Pompeii was something we could not miss. The thing that surprised both of us was just how HUGE it was. I felt like I had pictured it in mind as this small place, but it most definitely was not.

 There we are standing amongst the sprawling streets of Pompeii!

You need to make sure and get a map. People with their little street stores will tell you, "You need a map you need a map. Trust us, buy one here." They are right, you NEED a map, but they are wrong in that you need to buy one. The maps are free within in the site just ask someone who works there for one.

We could easily see how a tour guide would be nice in Pompeii, but decided that we would save our euros for other things (probably chocolate).

We did get to see the people that were buried by ash. It was a bit of a let down as they were behind really thick, dirty glass. Still not bad.

We later found some that were not behind glass but behind bars along with pots and other artifacts found within the site.

Pompeii was awesome. We planned on Mt. Vesuvius as well but found out it was closed that day??? Anyways we saw it and could almost see lava flowing down the hillside with Pompeii in its sights. 

With Vesuvius being closed we decided we would travel to Rome that very same day so we could do Rome early the next day. So we once again hopped on the train and headed out. 

We stopped in Naples and decided to grab some pizza, after all we are in Naples! While waiting for our train to arrive in Naples, we walked down the street for some "take away" (to go) pizza. The pizza was fabulous and Harmon even ran back to grab a second slice of an exceptionally  tomato covered one. (Yuck,thinks Brooke)

All in all Pompeii was great! However, we look forward to the time we will spend in Rome getting to know the Colosseum and what not.