POMPEII AND SORRENTO TOWN

Hi guys,

I've decided to break up my Italy holiday piece and instead i'm going to do three blogposts on the trips that we partook in. I just have so many beautiful picture's and things to talk about I wouldn't have gotten it all done in one piece. Here goes when my sister asked me could I take a holiday in august to head to Italy for a week I got straight on with work. I could not go to Italy an not see pompeii, capri and the amafli coast. We book our holiday through www.traveldepartment.com who in fact have been in business for the last 14 years.

They have a shop in arnotts department store on henry street which I also did not know thanks to my sister. The one thing I will say is I truly enjoyed this holiday as it was stress free because they include excursions into your holiday package in which you went on. That's one thing off your mind that you don't have to be worrying about when planning to head off on your holidays. Definitely be doing another holiday with this company. Back to my trips though! Pompeii and Sorrento town were an early start on thursday morning but sure who cares as you are going to be walking around on history dated back since 79 A.D. Just to warn you we went in august it's of course high season be careful. We had to bring hats, wear suitable footwear,sun cream and a bottle of water with us. By jaysus it was roasting!

Our guide Julia was lovely she's been doing this for over 30 years now. She knew every nook and cranny of pompeii and Sorrento. She told us that you basically need three days to see the whole of Pompeii. We got to see the main picks that Julia wanted us to see from Pompeii. I was just overwhelmed to have read about this in the history book back in the good old school days but to be actually walking on the streets where houses still stand there to this day. It was a dream! She took us to see the gladiator gym and told us with what we see in the films about gladiators having to kill the other gladiator it's not true,films ah! We were then brought to a house that painting on the wall is still visible but you had to be careful as when you're taking pictures you needed to have your flash off as it would ruin the painting, crazy!

We seen a couple of skeletal bones but nothing major as they were locked away in a glass cabinet in which we could only see from a distance. We also got the chance to see a plastering which was in the shape of a whole human form you can clearly see he was trying to run from this disaster. While walking through Pompeii you feel like you have a moment to yourself were your just thinking about this event and thinking of all those poor souls that lost their life. I would have liked to have seen more but we had to move on as it was just so busy that day with loads of other tourists and locals. We broke for break time most of the group stayed together for this part but a few went off and did their own thing. Have to say I was starving so we stayed with the group. That was Pompeii finished with now it feels like I've never even stepped foot on it. Back on the coach and we we're giving the choice to stay or go to see Sorrento town while back at our hotel. We made the decision to stay on the bus and go to explore Sorrento town. Why not as it actually turned out to be only 4 stops away from us on the train. Really we were only down the road from it!

Sorrento town to my surprise is just a square that you simply walk around in. It has it's many little hidden ally ways loaded with shops, restaurants and bars all next to each other. Again Julia picked out the spots to really see but you had your own leisure time to pop down and really explore Sorrento town if you wanted to. It's just beautiful and when the sun shines it's even more spectacluar. The views were incredible and I definitely would head back to Italy again as once you've seen this place you have falling in love with Italy even more.

Hope you enjoy the piece!

Bubbles xx