Italia! Finally...

So we ened up staying in Olympia until yesterday, the 6th, so we can still use our Eurail passes on the 5th of January for the Chunnel to London. We visited the museums and hung out. Joel ate his first Greek salad. We all got sick, well not Joel, from eating too many gyros. Sean...... well I will let him explain himself. It was fun,but we were glad to get moving.



Yesterday we took 2 trains to get to the port. On the second train the conducter must have had head trauma, or had a child with head trauma with him because for the whole two hours he did not stop blowing the horn. He might have gone 5 minutes at the most without doing it. He must of taken great pleasure too, because they were never the same length. One lasted nearly 30 seconds! I just wanted to jump out and walk the rest of the way. Anyways, we made it there and boarded the GIGANTIC Superfast ferry to Bari, Italy. After some confusion we found a place and stayed there all night. I probably had the worst sleep of my life there. Hard, rattling floor, lights on, stupid disco pumping very loud music 30 feet away. Needless to say I was a grumpy bear today.


From the port we all packed into a bus like sardines and got a lift to the train station. From there, some complete idiot told us to take a train to Taranto, where we were told to board a 4 hour bus (I HATE BUSES WITH ALL OF MY BEING) to Naples. 4 hours. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArhg. It was like looking into hell. Just as hot and almost as long. This driver had also suffered from some serious head trauma because he decided to weave of the highway and do a loop in every small town he saw along the way. We finally made it to Naples, starving and frustrated. We wanted pizza but McDonalds was the first place we saw. It was gross and the coke tasted like watered down melted carmels. Anyways, we are here at the wonderful Hostel Bella Capri in Naples and reading to sleep and start tomorrow when we will head for Pompei. I will probably post pictures tomorrow.