Day 1 (Travelling) -
Just before we went on the plane, in the duty-free part of the airport where the shops are, I went to Accessorize and me and one of my friends bought ourselves a cute flower headband each. We then went to a perfume shop and I had found this scent that smelt like fresh grass so she started spraying it on her and mine's head because we were wearing the flowers! After that we went around telling everyone to smell our heads!
Picked up a Innocent smoothie before we went on the plane.
On the plane, I sat with two of my friends and we had some fun (doing revision...? That was not me fyi!).
A picture of the wing after we took off.
This is the bread that came with our huge meal at the first hotel we stayed at in Naples. We had all eaten a bread roll each but when one of the waiters saw we had finished the basket, he took it away from us, filled it back up and gave it back to us! We were all like, how are we going to manage another basket?!
When we were first given the pasta, we were all thinking, "This is a nice meal." Let me emphasize on the word 'meal'. It turns out it was just the starter...
This was the actual main course. I forgot to take a photo of the dish before I ate it (or some of it as I had eaten the whole starter already!) so I'll tell you what was on it. It was breaded pork, chips and ketchup - yum!
And even that wasn't it - after all of that food, they gave us a bowl of oranges/tangerines (I don't know the difference). I didn't eat one though because I was full up and I don't eat oranges like a normal person... so that would be embarrassing!
Day 2 (Herculaneum & Mt Vesuvius or should I say - "Vesuvio")
Travelling to Herculaneum - guess what we went past?
Looking over Herculaneum.
If you look closely there are skeletons of people inside buildings. Scary... :O
After we'd toured around the whole of Herculaneum, we travelled to Vesuvius to climb the last 30 minutes of the way up (you didn't expect us to climb the whole way up, did you?) At first, we couldn't see anything because of all the fog but on the way down the fog had cleared and I managed to take a clear picture of the crater.
After struggling back down the mountain, in the evening we went to a really cool café where we got to try making dough the Italian way. The café was so cool - it basically brought the outside into the inside and even though it was quite open, it had these tall heaters that reminded me kind of like lampposts... I know I haven't made the heaters sound good but they were, OK?
This was the starter, we had three different types of bread. The triangular one (with olives - there's a hint) was olive bread, the rectangular one was bread (pita?) filled with melted cheese but I wasn't very keen on it as it had mushrooms in (shiver) and the last one was (pretty obvious) extremely crunchy garlic bread.
Next up was the actual main - which of course - were pizzas! :) We got to choose what we wanted on our own pizza so I chose parmesan, pepperoni and mozzarella. They then cooked it in a proper pizza stove thing and the cool thing was that it was cooked practically outside (as in not under shelter!)
Lastly, we got given a delicious pastry filled with something chocolate. Even if it doesn't look appealing, I can assure you that it definitely tasted nice!
This is just part 'uno' of the Italy trip and as soon as I've finished this post I am going to start writing about what I did on the next two days. So hold on for a bit longer and part 'due'...
