Pompei Stories


Pompei and sleeper train

We checked out of the hostel at 10 and had another cheap breakfast at it. We then caught our train to Napoli, which was very comfortable and had power sockets. Once we got to Napoli we had to catch our train from the underground area, but because the whole place was being renovated there were no signs to say what platform our train would be one so we ha...


short weekend trip

This past weekend a group of friends and i took a train to the naples area. we got there friday, and from there we took another train to get to the ruins city of Pompei. It was one of the most interesting places I've been so far. The city itself is huge and impossible to see in one day. We saw lots of shops, villas with wall paintings, plaster-casted bo...


Surviving the Amalfi Coast

Saturday 24 June we left Rome for the Amalfi Coast, our apartment was about 5 miles north of Amalfi. Really lovely place high up in the hills although you really needed a 4 wheel drive to get there. The poor car didn't know what was happening to it. Our first day here wasn't exactly successful with us driving around windy coast roads in search of a s...


Pompei was awesome!!

On Saturday, Nikki, Jaci, Toby, and I took a very early train to Naples for only 10 euro. It took about 2 hours and we all slept the entire way. When we got there, the city looked kinda scary… so we didn’t even leave the train station and instead got right onto another train to Pompei. If you don’t know anything about Pompei, don’t feel bad because I...