Pompeii, Sorrento, Capi, Italy!

This is how the cave really looks. it glows! (in Capri, Italy)

A view from Sorrento to the bay.

Brian in old Pompeii.

In a theater in Pompeii.

Ashlei in a Pompeii temple.


Well, goodbye Greece and hello Italy. There had been plenty still to see in Greece but we were ready to leave and have a change. Italy provided that for us. We flew in to Naples and headed straight for Sorrento on the eastern coast where we spent a few nights, allowing us to explore the nearby island of Capri (with the blue grotto - the glowing cave that you see above) as well as the disaster of Pompeii. If you don´t know what Pompeii is, it´s a city that in midday was covered in the volcanic ash of Mt. Vesuvius, their neighborhood volcano. We´ve been around them lately huh? Well, their aftermath seems to make great places to visit. Anyhow Pompeii was covered and BOOM! just like that the city was gone and so were all of its inhabitants. When archeologists excavated it they found an incredibly intact city that was put to sleep forever in mid-sentance. It was an amazing place to behold, and again a reminder as to how temporal much is.