Ash Wednesday

The plan for Wednesday was to meet Launnies’ former co-worker, Allison, at the dock in Naples. This plan quickly went awry when no Allison was found. This lead to a constant circling of taxi vultures. Who insisted on being our driver and guide for the day. After another 25-50 “No’s” we had purchased our U5 ticket and were in relative safety on a traffic island in the middle of the street. We boarded the 152 bus to the train station and caught the Circumvesuviana train to Pompeii. Forty minutes later we arrived at the busy tourist site. We hired a guide for a 2 and a half hour tour of the highlights of Pompeii.

This is a plaster mold of a driver covering his nose and mouth to protect himself from the falling ash and poisonous fumes.

Wall fresco

We then continued on the train to Sorrento. Where we ignored Rick Steve’s guide book and hired an outrageous taxi and went to a restaurant that we had previously picked out. After eating authentic wood oven pizza and the famous gelato we wandered through the narrow streets and shopped. We followed Scott’s advice and went down to catch a ferry but had missed the last one. So we found an empty bus and sat in it until the driver returned from his break. The bus then took us back to town and we walked back to the train station for our one hour ride back to Naples.

Lemons and Oranges is what Sorrento is famous for. They were everywhere!

A miniature truck, squishing two people inside.

Getting back to the boat around 730pm we went up the top deck we had Vege Burgers and fries. Dwight and Caitie then headed off to see back to back movies, Alice in Wonderland 3D and When in Rome. Scott and Launnies went to see Disney’s Oceans (where they about fell asleep!).

Ciao!

-Dwight, Launnies, Scott and Caitie