have been figuring out flash.. so expect a facelift soon!
so, we went to Naples and Rome for one week. I love Naples! It's a true case study of chaos and order! The traffic is ruled by the people themselves. They disregard traffic lights, and children ride on motorbikes, scooters everywhere. oh, and everybody rides without a helmet.
what you see above is not the types the kids ride around in chinatown, or toa payoh central for $1. The kids are true hellriders!
Naples was good too because there was many cheap and good food! Did you know pizzas originated from Naples? And there, our favourite was this local 'delicacy' that taste like fried dough sticks stuffed with cheese. And it costs 0.50 euro only. Tt's what we are holding in the picture.
We went to Pompeii, an attraction in Naples.
Yes, it's the city which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that we read on our school textbooks. The above is the plaster cast of a victim.
But it wasn't all just ruins and scary plaster casts.
The weather was good so we could sit in the grassy ancient amphitheatre.
Next we went to Rome and the Vatican city.
That's me standing in St. Pietro's Piazza, in front of the Basilica.
Did u know the Vatican City is the 2nd smallest nation in the world? Haha. And the most amazing thing that happened in the Catholic nation was we met our classmates in exchange in Germany and happened to be touring Italy. But no luck in catching the Pope though. Heard he was in town. It was the American's and Spanish's easter break and the whole Rome was bustling with tourists!
We had to queue for more than an hour to get into the Vatican Museum for the famous sistine chapel, where you are not supposed to take pictures.
But like mona lisa in the louevre, it was too irresistable. Henceforth,
ancient ruins left by the Roman empire
Rome was lacklustre in comparison with Naples. It was just too commercialised. But still, it's a great city not to be missed if you are in Italy.
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