Since I don't want to do the 40 pages of reading I have or study for my test tomorrow (aren't study abroad classes supposed to be easy???), I think that now is the perfect time to update everyone on the absolutelyyyy incredible weekend I had on the Amalfi Coast.
I will start out by saying that this place is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. And now for my story:
Friday after class Barbara and I embarked on our adventure. I'll skip over the boring part about how we almost missed our flight because the trains were all broken down and were going slower than a turtle, but nonetheless we made our flight. When we got to "Rome" which really wasn't Rome but it was the shithole airport RyanAir tricks you into thinking is Rome, we sat there for like four hours waiting for the group to pick us up. While waiting, we ran into Dumbledore who apparently isn't really dead:
After a four hour bus ride, we finally ended up in the city of Sorrento. It was unfortunately really late out so we couldn't see much of anything, but the lights around the coastline embedded into the mountainside was really a site to see. We got to the hostel finally, and discovered that Sarah Mer Barb and I would be sharing a room with 7 of the screaming biddies. (Biddie in this context=dumb girl for any old people reading this who don't know what it means.) Anyway, we woke up in the morning after 4 hours of sleep. It was time to head to Capri! We walked down to the dock in Sorrento to catch the boat....
At first I didn't think Capri could be more beautiful than Sorrento. It is such a charming city. But then we got to Capri and I was literally blown away. Here are some pictures of the dock area when you arrive:
Barbie and I
And thattt is the gorgeous view at the start of the 2 hour boat tour we took around the Island. I know I say this a lot but words and pictures really don't do it justice. For some reason being in such a peaceful and beautiful environment like this made me really pensive and I started thinking about when I was in Israel with my dad last December. It might have been some of the similarities in scenery that got me thinking, but regardless, I was thinking. So anyway, when I was in Israel, there were a few very valuable lessons he helped me learn/realize. 1. Take pictures of everything because that's the only way you can "capture the moment." 2. He and I are extremely alike in many ways and are 2 very adventurous people in every aspect of life- and especially when it comes to traveling. And.... 3. Always take the harder route in life and in travel because it is always more rewarding in the end.
So I took these lessons with me during this weekend excursion in the Amalfi Coast. And they proved to be just as important in Italy as they were for us in Israel.
I did as he said and took over 300 pictures this weekend, and now I'd like to share some of the many photos with you guys.
Let me continue on now that I've been sidetracked. The boat tour took us to one of the natural wonders of the world, The Blue Grotto. To be honest, I had never even heard of it before booking this trip but now I know it was worth all the hype I've been hearing to go see it.
It's a TINY little cave that the Romans used to go swimming inside. Here you can see Meredith almost hitting her head:
And once we were inside, it was an extremely dark cave with only a little light shining through from the tiny entrance, and that entrance illuminated the water to look like this:
(I swear to God I took this photo with NO flash and I didn't edit the picture either)
So beautiful. So blue.
And after that the driver of our little boat gave us the opportunity to jump into the water. Now, I may sound like a wussy right now but open water is pretty terrifying to me. And I didn't want to go in. And get cold. But I remembered back to when I was at the Dead Sea in Israel with my dad, and despite the fact that it was FREEZING cold, he basically forced me to go in- after all, "you're only at the Dead Sea once" according to him. So I listened to his little voice in my head and in I jumped, and it was worth every second of freezing-ness and scariness.
Post-swim in the blue grotto.
Here is a picture of the four girls post-swim:
So the boat ride continued and I swear I've never seen water so blue in my life.
I really hate to say this, but my internet is being so slow and it's taking about an hour to upload one picture (I feel like I'm back in the dial-up Dark Age.) I'm sick and I need to sleep and I have a flight tomorrow to Oktoberfest!!! So basically I will have to update this blog on Monday or Tuesday with pictures and details from the rest of the day in Capri, the rest of the weekend in Pompeii and Positano, and the weekend in Munich! (And Malaga, but that's a story for later.)
Apologies for being so terrible at updating this but I've been extremeeeelyyyy busy.
Greetings from Barcelona, hugs and kisses to my family and friends,
xoxo Yarden
After looking for/waiting for the Bus2Alps bus find us for a few hours, they finally arrived. We then got onto a bus of 50 screaming biddies. Laura Hollis, you would have bashed your head against a window. They gave us a headache. The headache drove us to needing a beverage or 8.
After a four hour bus ride, we finally ended up in the city of Sorrento. It was unfortunately really late out so we couldn't see much of anything, but the lights around the coastline embedded into the mountainside was really a site to see. We got to the hostel finally, and discovered that Sarah Mer Barb and I would be sharing a room with 7 of the screaming biddies. (Biddie in this context=dumb girl for any old people reading this who don't know what it means.) Anyway, we woke up in the morning after 4 hours of sleep. It was time to head to Capri! We walked down to the dock in Sorrento to catch the boat....
At first I didn't think Capri could be more beautiful than Sorrento. It is such a charming city. But then we got to Capri and I was literally blown away. Here are some pictures of the dock area when you arrive:
And thattt is the gorgeous view at the start of the 2 hour boat tour we took around the Island. I know I say this a lot but words and pictures really don't do it justice. For some reason being in such a peaceful and beautiful environment like this made me really pensive and I started thinking about when I was in Israel with my dad last December. It might have been some of the similarities in scenery that got me thinking, but regardless, I was thinking. So anyway, when I was in Israel, there were a few very valuable lessons he helped me learn/realize. 1. Take pictures of everything because that's the only way you can "capture the moment." 2. He and I are extremely alike in many ways and are 2 very adventurous people in every aspect of life- and especially when it comes to traveling. And.... 3. Always take the harder route in life and in travel because it is always more rewarding in the end.
So I took these lessons with me during this weekend excursion in the Amalfi Coast. And they proved to be just as important in Italy as they were for us in Israel.
I did as he said and took over 300 pictures this weekend, and now I'd like to share some of the many photos with you guys.
Let me continue on now that I've been sidetracked. The boat tour took us to one of the natural wonders of the world, The Blue Grotto. To be honest, I had never even heard of it before booking this trip but now I know it was worth all the hype I've been hearing to go see it.
It's a TINY little cave that the Romans used to go swimming inside. Here you can see Meredith almost hitting her head:
And once we were inside, it was an extremely dark cave with only a little light shining through from the tiny entrance, and that entrance illuminated the water to look like this:
(I swear to God I took this photo with NO flash and I didn't edit the picture either)
So beautiful. So blue.
And after that the driver of our little boat gave us the opportunity to jump into the water. Now, I may sound like a wussy right now but open water is pretty terrifying to me. And I didn't want to go in. And get cold. But I remembered back to when I was at the Dead Sea in Israel with my dad, and despite the fact that it was FREEZING cold, he basically forced me to go in- after all, "you're only at the Dead Sea once" according to him. So I listened to his little voice in my head and in I jumped, and it was worth every second of freezing-ness and scariness.
Here is a picture of the four girls post-swim:
So the boat ride continued and I swear I've never seen water so blue in my life.
I really hate to say this, but my internet is being so slow and it's taking about an hour to upload one picture (I feel like I'm back in the dial-up Dark Age.) I'm sick and I need to sleep and I have a flight tomorrow to Oktoberfest!!! So basically I will have to update this blog on Monday or Tuesday with pictures and details from the rest of the day in Capri, the rest of the weekend in Pompeii and Positano, and the weekend in Munich! (And Malaga, but that's a story for later.)
Apologies for being so terrible at updating this but I've been extremeeeelyyyy busy.
Greetings from Barcelona, hugs and kisses to my family and friends,
xoxo Yarden
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