Pompei

Pompei is one of the coolest things I've seen, it's amazing to see a circulation that lived so advanced so long ago. Walking through Pompei was just like walking through a city of ruins. There were so many streets that we had to use a map to get around. Many of the buildings are now only one story but you can tell they used to be two. You can see the different rooms, stairs to go up stairs, and even a kitchen or an oven in some. People back then must have been very short because I was too tall for many of the doors! It amazed me just trying to picture how life was back then. In Pompei there are also court yards, parks, a bath house that used to serve as a sauna, huge columns and statues, and on some of the walls beautiful colorful mosaics. In the cobble stone streets you could still see the marks from the chariots riding over and over again. One thing that amazed me was on some of the floors there were colorful pictures made out of tiny tiny tile, the kind you see in some bathrooms today. I have no idea how back then people were able to make such small colorful tiles into large works of art on the floor. The coolest but also sad part was seeing the perfectly preserved people who does when the volcano exploded. People must have died extremely fast to have stayed in those positions. The people were contorted or looked like they were running and one person was even sitting covering his face with his hands. One some of the people we were able to see up close you could see all of their teeth and the bones in their hands. At the end of Pompei was the amphitheater, nothing like the colosseum haha but still very amazing.

 

After leaving the ancient city of Pompei we went into the actual city looking for food. Dan's friend had tile him about this pizza place called Pompei Pizza and said it was the best around. He wasn't lying! I don't know if I'll ever be able to eat pizza again in the US haha. I ordered a pizza with mozzarella cheese and spicy salami, I loved it! Best pizza I had in Italy. I think what made it so good was the sauce and the freshness of the ingredients, there's nothing like it.

After all this we caught our two trains and four hours later we were back in Rome. There is a restaurant right near our hostel that when we all went before we all agreed that it has the best pasta dishes we've ever eaten. Last time we went there I got lasagna (I already blogged about it) and everyone else had the most amazing dishes. We all always try each others food everywhere we go. We had been looking for to going back to this restaurant to try another dish when we all returned to Rome. I had been looking forward to this meal all day knowing I was going to order the pesto. I hadn't eaten pesto this while trip knowing I was going to order it here. Well when we got to the restaurant it was closed. I've never been so heart broken in my life! I just had to settle for pesto at anther restaurant.