So I know I promised FABULOUS posts about Italy, but who has time? Every city has been incredible and I have been too busy enjoying and experiencing to get on here and talk about it.
From Rome, I went to Napoli and had AMZAING pizza with other fried things with tomatoes and sugar and nuttella. I am going to become a nuttella person when I get home and make crepes and do all other sorts of extraordinary cooking. Marry me now while you have the chance!
Mom leaving broke my heart, until I got to Napoli. The hostel was one of my all time favorites (La Cantrora, i believe). I watched the champion futball game with Leonard, a Hollander from the hostel. We went to a great little Italian bar in the student part of town and sat with Mario, Luigi, and Aldo. We all rooted for Barcelona and were not dissapointed! Sorry, Man U fans! The next day I met Dave and Danny from N. Carolina, though Dave is living in LA now. We went to Pompeii and took great pictures, playing gladiator and to see the casts of people who perished in the volcanic activity was incredible. Then we went out for that AMAZING pizza I told you about.
The next morning I headed to Sicily and forgot my tennis shoes in Napoli. Oh well. On the train, I sat with a woman who kept pressing food into my hands, chided me for picking at my face, and pulled my skirt over my knees when men walked by and scowled at them. She called herself Mamma Italia and I love her madly. The other companion in my car was Alexander, who walked me to my hostel when we got in 2 hours late, as Palermo is no place for a girl alone at night. Met Chris from Vancouver and we had a perfect day at the beach with watermalon and Magnum ice cream, then we went to the hostel and I cooked up swordfish we had picked up at the market. Went to a free "rock" concert with Catt from Melbourne, Aus and Sebastian from Columbia. Sebastian helped improve my spanish quite a bit and we worked on his English. The next morning, Chris went out and bought food for breakfast and I whipped it up. We finished it off with a cannoli and coffee. Perfecto. Then Catt, Seabastian, and I went on a trek to find the church with the tree in the middle (which we eventually did) and the catacombs with the preserved bodies of women, children, men, you name it. Eerie and unbelievable.
Caught the night train to roma, where I am now, about to catch another train to La Spezia and eventually Genoa, where I will sleep tonight and then on to Germany, via Switzerland. Italy has been amazing, but it has been enough. I am ready to go "home" to Deutschland.
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Glad that you found time to add onto your blog. I have been wondering how things went in Naples. Sounds like it was a great stop for you. I was so worried about you in Naples and South Italy from what everyone had to say about that part of Italy. Unless you are going to do some climbing you probably will not need your tennis shoes anyway. We surely never wore them during the time I was traveling with you. Sounds like Mamma Italia and I agree on lots of things. She must be a briliant woman. Smart as they come.
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