Coming from Greece, we went to Naples, Italy where we met up with Uncle Scott who just arrived from California. First stop - PIZZA! Did you know that Naples is where pizza originated? I got to make the pizzas. They put olive oil on top of their pizza!
They next morning we went to Vesuvius and Pompeii. We started at Pompeii. We saw the remains of the city after Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. That’s over 2000 years ago! We walked around and our guide told us information about how people lived before the eruption.
In the afternoon we hiked up Mount Vesuvius. It was steep and dirty. There were lots of igneous and metamorphic rocks. We even took some home in our pockets (the guide told us to). When we got up there we saw the crater formed from the eruption. It was BIG.
Capri was our stop for the next day. We took a boat ride to the island that was about 45 minutes away.
When we got to the island we took a taxi cab. All the taxi cabs in Capri are convertibles! We rode to a one person chair lift that looks like this:
Mom was amazed at the gardens being grown on the side of the mountain.
At the top we saw a pretty view of Capri.
Next stop: the Blue Grotto, where you go into a little cave opening from the ocean by boat. You have to duck and the person driving the boat pulls you in by a rope attached to the cave and the water’s very light blue. It is lit by the sun through the small opening. It was very, very, very, very, very beautiful.
To wrap it all up we had a pasta lunch and then saw a church with a tiled floor. Animals were all over the floor. It was a picture of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. We had to walk on a very skinny wood floor that was edged around the picture.
Up next: Rome
2 comments:
I've always wanted to see Pompeii. That floor is so cool. Looks like so much fun.
Thank you. In Pompeii did you see the street with the rocks down the middle? They washed the waste down the street and the rocks were how you crossed the road. Gross right?
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