Tuesday, June 18, 2013

AI: Day 6

Pompeii! Yes, today we go to Pompeii. As always, we couldn't figure out the train system. Luckily, after walking around in circles we found someone to explain to us where and when to catch our train. Luckily though we made it and upon arrival were immediately accosted by taxi cab drivers. SUPPOSEDLY Pompeii was too far to walk to and we just had to take a cab. This wasn't the case at all once we arrived, but whatever, this was becoming a norm for us. Regardless we were going to walk back.
Pompeii was unexpected in many ways. First, the sheer size of Pompeii was really unexpected. We realize it was a city and therefore covering a lot of ground, but still...  We were hoping for more dead people though. I know that sounds morbid but it's the truth, we were hoping to see more of that instead of lots and lots of city- which was definitely cool!
We walked back to the train but had a while till the train arrived. Across the street was a tiny café and we thought, what the heck? The gal spoke very little English but we made it work with the little Italian I spoke. We enjoyed a table on the outside, few rain drops, but quite nice. We had only beverages but the waitress brought us a plate of olives, sausages, and artichoke hearts. It was just delightful.
We then headed back and decided we needed some grub. We ventured to this little piazza and decided to eat out on the patio. We ordered hamburgers, as we needed something different badly! Well different is what we got! They served us hamburgers with no buns and no condiments. Not so good, I mean, yeah, it was, but super salty. End of day, so there you go.




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