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Naples, Italy Click any picture to see full size We took a Princess tour on this port (as you will notice from our tacky sticker and oh boy, we even got headsets this time!). The tour didn't really involve Naples at all and I am so thankful for that! When we were driving the shuttle bus through Naples to the port it was seriously like driving through South Side Chicago. Luckily we were whisked away to a hydrofoil boat that took us to the island of Capri. Talk about WOW...it is a magnificent fancy pants resort island that we were blessed to visit. It's very popular for vacations and ultra wealthy jet setters. A typical condo rents for 20k a month if that gives you any idea. After Capri we took another hydrofoil to the also beautiful island of Sorrento where we had lunch and tried to go shopping but it ended up we arrived during their siesta. I didn't realize people actually participated in this nonsense but they do...the whole town was literally shut down so people could nap. Crazy. Finally we took a bus to the ancient city of Pompeii. This city has an amazing story and was amazing to see as well. It was destroyed during a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The volcano buried the city under many feet of ash and it was lost for 1,600 years before its accidental rediscovery. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. The excavated town offers a snapshot of Roman life in the first century, frozen at the moment it was buried in AD 79. The Forum, the baths, many houses remain surprisingly well preserved. Thick layers of ash having covered the town, it was abandoned and eventually the name and location were forgotten. Then Pompeii was rediscovered in 1748.
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