Jewel of the Seas Greek Isles - Final Sea Day & Naples Part 1
The following day was a sea day and the wind was high and the water
was the choppiest I’ve ever felt. I took 2 motion sickness pills and
tried to sleep the afternoon away.
My notes:
Woke up 9:30. Left cabin at 11 and went to next cruise desk. Offering$600 OBC but Nate was still sleeping. I better not get in trouble and book something without him!
Choppy and windy. Top deck closed all day. Barely anyone walking around. Nausea bags on all the stairwells. Took a nap to ease the queeze plus 2 motion sickness pills.
I checked out our photos in the gallery
The rest of my notes that night:
Cherries jubilee watery and not good
A few guys in t shirts at dinner and overall casual even though was supposed to be formal night.
Started packing :(
Set clocks back an hour tonight.
I struggled for months over what to plan for Naples...I went back and forth several times. I asked my roll call if anyone was interested in a Joe Bananas Limo excursion to Pompeii and Amalfi coast but got no takers...so then we could do it just the 2 of us but I wasn’t willing to spend the extra and I didn’t want to take the ship excursion.
When we booked the Sicily excursion I felt like that was a good enough substitute so then I settled on us just going to Pompeii.
Ok but how?
Royal has another sale and I got on your own transfer round trip for $37 each.
We woke the morning of Naples with the sunrise again
The bus parks about a block away and you are walked to the entrance.
This is the square when you enter and exit
I think I could easily get “lost” on the streets of Pompeii for hours exploring. Everywhere you look is a street to walk down.
I climbed up on a ledge to get this pic and it just goes on for what seems like miles
It was so windy that day and yet hot. This is probably my favorite photo
we paid 17 euro for our food at one of the restaurant stands in the square. The volcano erupted in 79AD and its not lava that covered Pompeii but ash that was actually blown by heavy winds.” Otherwise Naples coast would have been destroyed. Our operator on the bus said that she is actually an archeologist and that they have have been excavating for 250 years and there’s still 25% to uncover because young people don’t really want to be archeologists these days or are not interested in Pompeii. HOW INCREDIBLY SAD! For me I believe history is so much a part of who we are. The decisions we make in life effect now and tomorrow. So the famous plaster casts....the bones of the people are actually inside them...what happened is when they were digging they found hollow sections in the ash that had formed where the bodies were. So someone came up with the idea to fill them with plaster. When they did that, it formed exactly how the people, mostly slaves and prisoners left behind, were found.
My notes from Pompeii end with: The bus dropped us off and off we went to explore some more..I was still on a pizza hunt after all.
My notes:
Woke up 9:30. Left cabin at 11 and went to next cruise desk. Offering$600 OBC but Nate was still sleeping. I better not get in trouble and book something without him!
Choppy and windy. Top deck closed all day. Barely anyone walking around. Nausea bags on all the stairwells. Took a nap to ease the queeze plus 2 motion sickness pills.
I checked out our photos in the gallery
The rest of my notes that night:
Cherries jubilee watery and not good
A few guys in t shirts at dinner and overall casual even though was supposed to be formal night.
Started packing :(
Set clocks back an hour tonight.
I struggled for months over what to plan for Naples...I went back and forth several times. I asked my roll call if anyone was interested in a Joe Bananas Limo excursion to Pompeii and Amalfi coast but got no takers...so then we could do it just the 2 of us but I wasn’t willing to spend the extra and I didn’t want to take the ship excursion.
When we booked the Sicily excursion I felt like that was a good enough substitute so then I settled on us just going to Pompeii.
Ok but how?
Royal has another sale and I got on your own transfer round trip for $37 each.
We woke the morning of Naples with the sunrise again
The bus parks about a block away and you are walked to the entrance.
This is the square when you enter and exit
I think I could easily get “lost” on the streets of Pompeii for hours exploring. Everywhere you look is a street to walk down.
I climbed up on a ledge to get this pic and it just goes on for what seems like miles
It was so windy that day and yet hot. This is probably my favorite photo
we paid 17 euro for our food at one of the restaurant stands in the square. The volcano erupted in 79AD and its not lava that covered Pompeii but ash that was actually blown by heavy winds.” Otherwise Naples coast would have been destroyed. Our operator on the bus said that she is actually an archeologist and that they have have been excavating for 250 years and there’s still 25% to uncover because young people don’t really want to be archeologists these days or are not interested in Pompeii. HOW INCREDIBLY SAD! For me I believe history is so much a part of who we are. The decisions we make in life effect now and tomorrow. So the famous plaster casts....the bones of the people are actually inside them...what happened is when they were digging they found hollow sections in the ash that had formed where the bodies were. So someone came up with the idea to fill them with plaster. When they did that, it formed exactly how the people, mostly slaves and prisoners left behind, were found.
My notes from Pompeii end with: The bus dropped us off and off we went to explore some more..I was still on a pizza hunt after all.
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