Poco Loco Italiano

Italy: Naples - Rome - Florence - Lapedona

The past two weeks has been a crazy, overwhelming and exciting days. After our trip through old town Bari, we went through the beautiful Amalfi Coast and settled ourselves down for a couple of days in Naples, where we enjoyed the ruins in Pompeii and the amazing vast Vesuvius.

We had a magical experience in Pompeii, where we entered an area that was somehow blocked, and parked infront of the Order of Malta building. We were able to park there for free and was welcomed to have our lunch at their dining area where we were given water and also asked to sign in their guest book where we also saw the Pope sign in their book previous days. After lunch, one of the guards gave us a little tour to the top of the tower where we could see beautiful view of Pompeii and Vesuvius. We were definitely overwhelmed by the generousity. It was a pretty amazing experience.

As we hit Rome, we parked at the public parking area to do some errands and came back with the car window broken in to and all of our bags missing. It was rather devastating having the feeling of losing our one and only home, but immediately the night the incident happened, we experienced one of the most magical nights of our lives. The universe was kind and generous enough to give us the luxury of having the perfect camp fire, eating fantastic food, spectacular view, nice calm night, amazing stones and entertained by the dance of fire flies. We were absolutely blessed.

After fixing what needed to be fixed, we headed towards Florence and met the wonderful Richard and Sandra. It's always been great to see them especially after what had happened, it was really comforting to see them.

After Florence, we headed to Lapedona, where we are now. We're volunteering at a house for 3 weeks, where I am also teaching English at a children's camp which so far has been fun and interesting.

Pompeii (the first picture was with one of the guards of Order of the Malta who gave us a little tour to the tope of the bell tower to see Pompeii view.

Vesuvius and a little bit of Florence (unfortunately I couldn't take plenty of pictures of Florence because my camera charger was one of the stolen items. So I can't take lots of pictures yet. :-(

This photo was taken by Richard and Sandra in Florence. Thank you guys. Love you both so much.

Lapedona (view of the place we are staying at the moment)