(Me and the Roman Forum)
We took a train from Rome to Naples today (2.5 hours - Italian trains are cheap but dirty, although the view was great), and then from Naples to Pompeii (half an hour) after having pizza in Naples (that's where it was invented, you know).
Pompeii was neat - it's really large, which I guess I didn't expect, even though I knew it was a city. This is the city that was destroyed when a volcano blew up in AD 79, killing almost everyone, but preserving a lot of the city and people. The city ruins are pretty well preserved, considering they are thousands of years old, but the streets are made up of these huge cobblestones that are painful to walk on. We spent about three hours there, and then made our way back to the train station. It was a long day, but pretty neat.
We're going to the Vatican tomorrow, and hopefully seeing the catacombs. Me and John leave Friday for Florence, and Janeane is leaving Friday night for the UK, so we have a lot to fit in still - including some shopping. I hear the call of Italian leather, perhaps in the form of a new, chic purse?
Love!
