The Italian Blog - Part I

Ciao!

So arriving in Naples was no real problem, the flight was easy, the bus into town was easy, getting dropped off in Galibaldi Piazza was not. It was like getting dropped off in the ghetto. There was guys flat on the face in the gutter, the streets smelt of piss and this was where our hostel was.

Saying that, the hostel is fine. What more do you expect from a cheap hostel in europe? The first night, we went to a family run pizzeria, these can be found everywhere, much like Star Bucks or Maccy D's at home except nice. Pizza's range from 3 euros up, which is great if you're skint.

The second day we headed off to Pompeii. This place is fantastic, but like the rough guide said, one ruin begins to look much like another after a while. We did see some cool stuff, like ancient graffitti outside a "house of disrepute", an unstatisfied client so it would seem. There's really so much to see there, definitely worth checking out.

That evening we headed into the "nicer" area of town. We misleading believed this was a nice walk away and we're suprised that the journey took us through some not very attractive areas, and that it took bloody ages. In the end we found the nice area and got some nice pictures and strolled around for a while. We ventured to find a resturant that the rough guide had highly recomend and although we found it, it was closed. We wandered round to find something else and stumbled across a nice little place. I didn't really fancy a pizza, but Katie struggled to find much on the menu, the Italians are veggie friendly, alhtough the waiter did his best.

The following day we ventured over to Capri, which is a beautiful island about 45 minutes by jet boat. Quite an expensive day out, but worth it as the island was fantasitc. We found some really fantastic spots to admire the view and crowded onto a stone beach for a few hours. In true British style, I ran into the water, the freezing bloody water with loads of stones and then ran back out again pretending to Katie that it wasn't really that cold.

Tomorrow we're off to our next adventure in a national park...