Pompeii Travel Blogs

We got to the train station a little early to get our seat reservations but had some problems with the language barrier.  We thought the ticket seller told us to wait 30 minutes and then our tickets would be 5 Euro instead of 20.  That would only give us 6 minutes to run to the train.&nbs…

This weekend I ventured to Naples and then Pompeii with Bre, Amanda and Merlita. It was crazy. First off, we decided pretty quickly that we were even going to Pompeii. When I woke up that morning I had no idea that I would be going to sleep in Naples. The train ride to Naples went pretty smoothly…

Well, This was the part of the trip I was looking forward to. I had never been to Pompeii before, so I was excited to finally get to see it. I was amazed once again at the ancient architecture. Even the streets were interesting with the pieces of marble used as reflectors if the carriages entered t…

In the morning - after breakfast - i decided not to visit first the city of Napoli and save it for the afternoon but to head straight to Pompei - to see the ancient city destroyed by Vesuvio volcano. I took the suburban metro train (Circumvesuviana - is the running company) from main station Gariba…

As Danielle had never seen Pompeii and me never Ercolano,before going to our accomodation in Furore on the Amalfitan Coast,we did a short visit of the crowded Pompeii,in particular the Villa of Mysteries, the Villa of the Faun and............the brothel. After a year long of restauration,the bro…

Visiting Pompei  was in my mind since the first time I thought about going to Italy. So, it was time to do it. I woke up early and my feet were hurting a bit. I touched them and felt something strange, blisters??? OMG!!! Better don't look and just hope it was my idea....   I left t…

Pompeii is amazing.  It was an incredible set of circumstances that would have permitted this kind of destruction to occur, yet still allow us to experience the moment in time it occurred.  Getting there was easy and walking around was great.  I used the Rick Steves Italy walking gui…

So I arrived in Naples on Thursday after a very long day of travel from London.  From the airport it was a quick bus ride to the central train station, which is near my hostel.  I definitely was out of my comfort zone in a big way for the first time!  And Naples is really the ar…

Our time on the Amalfi Coast finished, Milton and I headed to nearby Pompei. The most remarkable thing about the Pompei area and Naples is just how much Mt Vesuvius dominates the landscape. I'm not quite sure how I would like living so close to what is essentially an active volcano, but it does mak…

Pompei is an old roman city destroyed in 79 d.C. during the eruption of the volcano Vesuvio.The archeolgic site is really BIG, so, if you want to visit it, start early in the morning a prepare yourself to a long walk ;)It's really wonderful to stay in a roman city, walk in that street and visit so …

I had my first frightening moment today: Got on the bus in Naples to bring me to the train station, thinking I could buy my ticket on the bus, as I had done on another one, but the bus driver was ignoring me so I thought I'd wing it this time, well of course that's when someone came on the bus to c…

Some of my favorite photos from my month on tour in Italy. :~)

When planning this trip to Pompeii I thought of just spending 4 hours and then heading to Rome again because I still don’t have any good photos of Rome in my 5 trips there.  Once arriving at Pompeii I was stunned, I had no idea the city was this big; well I ended up spending the whole day he…

So considering that neither my sister, nor I had slept much on the flight you would think we would have slept well that first night, and you would be wrong.  Sleep did not come easy or for long, but we were still up and at it like champs for day 2.  We had a train scheduled to leave at 74…

Before going into the ruins take plenty of water and wear good shoes.  We saw someone with a wheel chair in there they had to be carried out. This is a picture takers dream  Figure on spending at least 4 hours to cover everything.  There are resturants across the street, plenty of sh…