Capri & Rome

We're finishing up our trip here in Paris and we wanted to give you an update. We forgot to mention that we went to a mass in Pompeii in a church. My dad thought it was beautiful and quite an experience, like he was in the movie The Godfather (even though we had no idea what they were saying). The next day we caught a train down to Sorrento which was beautiful, my mom would've loved the shopping, but everything was so overpriced. Dad completely blew his budget buying mom a purse (Hint: mom you need to pretend to like it for at least a month even if you don't). The next morning we went to the Isle of Capri via a ferry where we caught a cable care halfway up the peak then we had to hike the rest. Dad almost collapsed on the way up, it was pretty brutal with the heat and incline. This was where Tiberius, the third emporer of Rome had his palance, overlooking the deep blue beautiful ocean. Once we were at the top, we realized that it was a bust. On the way back down, dad even said "Turn back, there's nothing to see" to a group of tourists. We then caught a boat to the Blue Grotto, we both thought it would've been a great place to snorkle but it was frustrating not being able to get into the water.

After we finished that, we caught a ferry, which turned out was headed back to Naples instead of Sorrento. So we had to take another ferry back to Sorrento to get our luggage. We then had to catch a train to Rome and arrived at the subway about 2 minutes before the subway system closed. We found our hotel pretty easily which was 4 blocks from the Vatican.

I overslept the next morning but made it to the airport the next morning. We came back, dropped off her luggage and began an all day walking tour of ancient Rome with a guide who wished he lived there himself. We started with the Circus Maximus, the balcony where Mousilini gave a speech, saw where Paul was imprisoned (one of our favorite things), then went to the Roman Forum and the Colosseum. We went back to the hotel and freshened up. Megan had only gotten 3 hours of sleep or so but she made it through the day. We then took Rick Steeve's self guided tour starting in Palac de Campo. From there we wondered the streets of Rome under the stars to Place de Navona.


We then worked our way around to the piazza in front of the Pantheon and had the most unbelievable Italian dinner with 2 pitchers of wine between the 3 of us. There was an Egyptian Obelisk in the piazza and an Italian opera singer. After dinner we walked to the Trevi fountain and got a Gelato (Megan's biggest wow moment of the trip). We finished the evening at the Spanish steps and caught the metro back to the hotel.

Dad has enjoyed narrating these last few posts, but our trip is over, so the Berlin/Paris posts won't be written quite the same.