Our second day trip sent us to Naples. We started at the Naples archaelogical museum, which I thought was sort of a disappointment compared to all the amazing museums I’d seen. Then we stopped for pizza – a delicacy born in Naples. It was easily the best pizza I’d ever eaten. We even watched them slide it in and out of the brick oven.
For me, the real highlight of the day trip was Pompeii. A whole little village half fallen apart but still laden with history and interests. I would’ve loved to visit Vesuvius, but we were out of time and headed back to the train station.
One of the weird things about Pompeii was the dogs. At the front, was a sign for adopting dogs - how nice, using a tourist location to publicize a cause, right? Wrong. Turns out, the dogs actually live in pompeii, probably subsisting off tourist love and trash. So there were dogs running around through all these ancient baths and standing on top of all these ancient buildings.
Whenever we traveled in Italian train/metro stations, we’d hear the same commericial for a Nissan car. It had a sort of haunting melody ‘Nice day for a walk in the park…..Nice day for a drive in the ..”, where it cut off into the commericial. There was also a haunting whistle that seemed follow us everywhere.
photos: an arch in pompeii, my family awkwardly standing about (i deemed this picture decent because at least my eyes are open...unlike in most of the pictures)
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