Day 10: Pompeii & Sorrento Naples, Italy Naples, Italy We woke up early today to catch the high speed train from Rome to Naples...here's a picture of the high speed train (it even looks sportier/faster than a normal one, huh?). We're enjoying our rides on these trains and within an hour we arrived in Naples!…
Category: Italy 2014
Blog Post from 2014 trip to Italy.
Day 9: Roma Antica
Day 9: Roma Antica Rome, Italy Rome, Italy Another incredible day in Rome! Today our tour guide took us to the many famous ancient sites, and we enjoyed every minute of this tour! We started our tour at the Fountain of Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi) in the middle of a Piazza Navona that…
Day 8: Roma Religiosa
Day 8: Roma Religiosa Rome, Italy Rome, Italy After breakfast at our hotel we met our very knowledgable tour guide, Andrea, for a walking tour of the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica. What a day! So much to take in, and I'm still just amazed at the size of the Vatican. Our…
Day 7: Rome
Day 7: Rome Rome, Italy Rome, Italy We enjoyed another high speed train ride (at times we were going 240 km/hr) as we ventured to Rome! During the train ride, I realized I didn't keep you all in the loop on one fun detail! Italians cannot say my maiden name (all our reservations are made…
Day 6: Cinque Terre
Day 6: Cinque Terre Florence, Italy Florence, Italy Bongiorno (good morning) from Florence! On Wednesday night I was too deep into a food/wine coma to write, so playing catch up this morning! On Thursday morning we met our driver and departed to the west coast for Cinque Terre. It's a very rugged/mountainous portion of coast…