Italia

We had a hard time figuring out our seats on the train. At first we didn’t know seats were assigned and we were afraid we wouldn’t find seats.
The train Ride was two hours and I slept formost of it.
We got there and went to the hostel. It was very hotelieh and we had just a double for this one
We then walked to this museum that has most of the authentic Pompeii artifacts buut for some reason a lot of the museum was closed off and we couldn’t find amy mosaics. We did see a lot of pots and furnishings and paintings and even food. I never realized how advanced Pompeii was!
Then we went to find this famous pizza shop because Naples is the birthplace of pizza. It was good but already cold by the time we had a chance to eat it.
By this time we were running behind schedule. This day was supposed to be packed but we realized we didn’t have enough time because we went to themuseum. So we went to the train station and changed our train ticket the next day from the morning to the afternoon.
Then we went to catch a train to Pompeii. We missed onby seconds and had to wait half an hour for another. Another train finally came, but two or three stops in we realized that this train was the wrong line. It started out as the same route but then branched off. We got off at a station that had a ok e connecting the two. The station was deserted except for two people were going in the opposite direction from us. We had to wait another half hour for this train and then again when we got to a stationonthe right line. We finally got to pompeii at six only to find out that we had only 1.5 hours until closing.
We walked around the ruins. It wasamazing and especially nice since there were only a few people there. We were also not too hot because it was night and that is onenof the major problems that people have. Another is the bad labelling of signs. We looked for the casts of people for a long time with no luck. I finally spoke to a guy ( from Iowa originally new jersey and who had been to concord) who told me that it was on the other side of the park. This was at closing time.
We didn’t leave and instead walked toward the casts. It took another hour and a bit for us to reach them and when we did it was kind of anticlimactic but still really cool. It was sad because everone had been lying onthe groundcovering their faces and noses with their hands to block out the hot ash. It was, as my guidebook describes, gruesome. To get out we hopped a metal fence because we didn’t know ifthe exit would let us out and we didn’t want to walk that far.
That was the end of that.
The hostel didn’t have wifi as far as we knew.

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