How many people in the world can say that they got to see an Airbus A380 take off, see the Saudi Arabian king, see the best preserved Greek temple in the whole wide world, see the ancient city of Pompeii, and meet and get a picture with an Italian film star all in one trip? I know of at least three people who can, the Sullivan family. The first part of our trip was very eventful. We got on the plane and prepared to take off. We taxied out from the gate and I happened to spot the notorious Airbus A380 getting ready to take off. Alas I did not have my camera so I could not take a film, but here is one I got off the internet about one. Click the blue link AIRBUS CLICK HERE.
This airplane dwarfs a 747 its huge. Well after that I personally thought that it would not get any better than that, but i was wrong. We had INCREDIBLE views of the alps going over into Italy, and luckily I had my camera then.
Notorious Mt. Blanc
We finally landed in Rome, and this was a little airport might I add, so it was deserted, it was like a ghost town. Our car was not very impressive, it definitely was not a Ferrari. So we motored on down the road to our beach paradise of Sorrento. Here are some maps which I marked with the area we stayed in. If you have problems seeing the pictures just click on them to see what i wrote.
Just look at the red circle towards the southern part.
This shows all of the cities we went to.
We got to our hotel in Sorento and crashed for the night. We woke up the next day to prepare for our excursion to Capri, the Island off the coast of Italy.
We took a boat to Capri which was about a 45 minutes to get there the island was really busy and there were a lot of tourists (don't you just hate tourists). But as you can see it is a gorgeous island. The emperor of Rome, Tiberius, ruled his empire from this island. He ruled it from a castle called the Villa Jovis, we actually hiked up to the top of the hill and there were magnificent views from the top.
Villa Jovis
We decided to have lunch on the top. We had Italian made sandwiches, I had a local soda called Lemon, and my dad and mom had wine. It was getting late so we hiked down and started to search for desert, and just our luck they were making an Italian movie there and I got a picture with one of the stars (I don't know her name).
While they were shooting the film they wanted us to be extras in the movie. The Italians told us NOT TO LOOK AT THE CAMERA. So of course during the whole entire shoot I was looking right at the camera. We did not get to stay very long to watch what they were doing, so we took the jet home.
We got back from Capri and honestly we were super exhausted, so we went to this incredible little pizza place called pizza franco. My mother shockingly reminded me that we had to meet our guide at our hotel at seven in the morning, so we had to check our e-mail and hit the hay.
We woke up the next day and we went to eat breakfast. We met our guide named Anna and we made our way to Napoli one of the most dangerous cities in Italy. Even though Naples is so dangerous our guide definitely "tamed the lion." We left Sorrento on a big boat and went across the bay. First stop when we arrived there was these fabulous churches. We learned about neopolitan culture and a lot about baroque style of painting. While we were out and about in the city we stopped at this incredible little ally way of (if you know what santons are) Italian remake of santons. Of course we took like an hour on that street, and we even bought some too. Around this time we were getting really hungry, and Anna took us to this awesome pizza place in Naples (even though we had pizza last night this was still delicious). The dough was salty, and the ingredients were fresh it was great. (I did not take any pictures of the churches because I thought that you were not supposed to take pictures). After that we headed over to the archaeological museum. Here are some pictures of what it was like.
The perfect statue, this was the inspiration.
I did not take many pictures because I did not have my camera the whole time. Tune in to the next post for Paestum and Pompeii.
Just look at the red circle towards the southern part.
This shows all of the cities we went to.
We took a boat to Capri which was about a 45 minutes to get there the island was really busy and there were a lot of tourists (don't you just hate tourists). But as you can see it is a gorgeous island. The emperor of Rome, Tiberius, ruled his empire from this island. He ruled it from a castle called the Villa Jovis, we actually hiked up to the top of the hill and there were magnificent views from the top.
Villa Jovis 
We decided to have lunch on the top. We had Italian made sandwiches, I had a local soda called Lemon, and my dad and mom had wine. It was getting late so we hiked down and started to search for desert, and just our luck they were making an Italian movie there and I got a picture with one of the stars (I don't know her name).
While they were shooting the film they wanted us to be extras in the movie. The Italians told us NOT TO LOOK AT THE CAMERA. So of course during the whole entire shoot I was looking right at the camera. We did not get to stay very long to watch what they were doing, so we took the jet home.We got back from Capri and honestly we were super exhausted, so we went to this incredible little pizza place called pizza franco. My mother shockingly reminded me that we had to meet our guide at our hotel at seven in the morning, so we had to check our e-mail and hit the hay.
We woke up the next day and we went to eat breakfast. We met our guide named Anna and we made our way to Napoli one of the most dangerous cities in Italy. Even though Naples is so dangerous our guide definitely "tamed the lion." We left Sorrento on a big boat and went across the bay. First stop when we arrived there was these fabulous churches. We learned about neopolitan culture and a lot about baroque style of painting. While we were out and about in the city we stopped at this incredible little ally way of (if you know what santons are) Italian remake of santons. Of course we took like an hour on that street, and we even bought some too. Around this time we were getting really hungry, and Anna took us to this awesome pizza place in Naples (even though we had pizza last night this was still delicious). The dough was salty, and the ingredients were fresh it was great. (I did not take any pictures of the churches because I thought that you were not supposed to take pictures). After that we headed over to the archaeological museum. Here are some pictures of what it was like.
The perfect statue, this was the inspiration.
I did not take many pictures because I did not have my camera the whole time. Tune in to the next post for Paestum and Pompeii.
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