Pompeii

The ruins of Pompeii were super interesting, and to guide us through them, we used a Rick Steves online walking tour, which worked pretty good. The whole site was cool, but our favourite parts were the bodies, the baths, the ancient fast-food place, the Temple of Isis, and the freshly squeezed frozen orange juice. To get to the town of Pompei, we walked from where we were staying in Terzigno, which took us about an hour because we weren't exactly sure of the route to take. What we found interesting on this walk, was that the non-tourist part of Pompei, is just as ghetto as Terzigno is (see previous post), which the usual [smarter] traveler to the ruins of Pompeii would never suspect or see.

The Forum

House of the Dancing Faun

Temple of Isis

Where Holy Water from the Nile Was Kept at the Temple of Isis

Part of an Aqueduct

Basilica

Bathhouses

Flour Grinder

Body in the Market Hall

Market Hall

Skeleton at the Market Hall

Demonstration of the Ancient Fast Food Place Pot Holder

The Theatre

And The Rest Are Random

Stepping Stones Used By Pedestrians When flooding the Streets To Clean Them. And Danielle's Finger, She Loves Taking Pictures of Her Fingers

Terzigno, Italy

We stayed in the Italian version of Compton [Terzigno] for two nights, as it was only a ten minute drive (or 52 minute walk while wearing our backpacks) from Pompeii. The streets were full of garbage and stray dogs, and no one in the town spoke English, including most of the staff at our hotel. The hotel was very fancy, and completely out of place in the ghetto of the town. Along with the luxury car rental place on the edge of the hood, the whole town was an oxymoron. To add to the weirdness, both nights there were people lighting off fireworks in town, and down somewhere along the bay of Naples, which you could see from across the street (we were fairly high up).

Our Hotel

Our Thanksgiving Dinner