The final installment of our Italy trip!! Sorry I know this post took me a little longer to get up…it has been crazy busy around here with travel and weddings etc!
If you missed the first 3 posts of our Italy trip, you can read them here:
Click here for a PDF of our itinerary.
The last bit of our trip we spent nearby to Naples where we had our “home base” with our friends that currently live there. They had off one day so we all rented a boat and had a fun boat day! We took it out and drove it over to Ischia to float around. We swam around, floated, had some laughs, practiced our back flips (okay that was just me) and had some fun in the Italian sun. I wish we had more time we could have spent the night in Ischia, it seems like such a beautiful island!
The next day Craig & I headed over to Pompeii from Naples via a taxi. It was kind of nice, our sweet taxi driver drove us over there, then just hung out and waited for us to be done, then he took us back! That made getting there easy for sure. It was like a flat rate of 90 euro or something along those lines. I’m sure there may be cheaper options out there, but this was worth the convenience factor for us on day 11 of traveling in another country. I know I was definitely getting tired at this point.
One thing that really surprised me about Pompeii was how BIG it was. I’m not sure why but in my mind’s eye I just pictured this tiny little town. It was a big city!
The ruins are truly amazing to see. It’s all still so much in tact for how old it is, you can really get a good idea of what it must have been like in it’s glory. I think it was probably such a beautiful place. Which makes sense, since it was a popular vacation spot for ancient Roman citizens. So we heard that the city was not as populated as it could have been since it wasn’t a full-time home for many of the people.
In that last picture above you can see Mount Vesuvius in the background. It’s in a few other pictures above as well but you can just see how close it was to the city.
The entire town is like a giant maze. We only were able to see a small portion of it on foot in 2 hours. I mean it’s WAY bigger than I realized. We didn’t do a tour or anything because we just wanted to walk around and explore on our own time and at our own pace.
You can read more about Pompeii here. The video at the top of the article doesn’t have the best graphics, but it does give a good idea of how intense the eruption was. Around 2,000 people died from “extreme heat”…basically the air was so hot they died instantly when they took a breath.
It was definitely a cool place to see and I wish I had more energy that day to really explore it more. But we had very little downtime in Italy to see as much as we could, so I was exhausted by the end of it. But I do recommend Pompeii and I’m happy that we went!
If you have any questions on it let me know!
We finished our trip to Italy with a couple of our best friends, pasta, & gelato.
A perfect ending to our perfect trip! Cheers to hoping we get to go back someday 🙂
Have you ever been to Pompeii? What did you think??
xo,
Bess
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