I spent the weekend in Naples with two of my roomates, Anna and Mary. We stayed in a lovely hotel on the waterfront, overlooking the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius. Needless to say it was absolutely gorgeous. We all bought cameos here (made from shells from Africa, and carved right in Naples) The actually city of Naples is not at aesthetically pleasing as you would think, but along the water it was very nice.
Friday we spent the day wandering around Naples, and visited the Museo Nazionale, which holds many of the mosaics and artifacts excavated from Pompeii. We then walked all the way to the top of the hill in Naples to the Castel Nuovo. The view was incredible. We then spent an hour and a half zig-zagging our way down the hill to the waterfront where we caught the last minutes of sunset. On Saturday we ventured out to Pompeii, and let me just say, WOW! Pompeii was out of this world. I couldn't believe how large it actually was (we spent a few hours here and still couldn't cover every inch). It was amazing to walk around this ancient city that was buried after the erruption of Mount Vesuvius in 80 AD.
After Pompeii we hopped back on the train to Sorrento. It was a beautiful town built into the hillside overlooking the Bay of Naples and the other side of Mount Vesuvius. We all bought limoncello here, a lemon liqueur. We walked down to the waterfront here and watched the gorgeous sunset, then headed back to Naples for the night. The next morning we wandered Naples until our train in the early afternoon back to Rome.
