Caravision’s Blog

Sooooo its been a while since I’ve been blogging. In a nutshell – Winter seemed to last forever! I am really missing home, Vienna is awesome and I’m glad I came but the novelty is wearing off!!

What have I been up to?!

Lets see in January I went to Italy with the family. We visited Rome, Pompei, and Sorrento. I took so many pictures in Rome that its taking more than an hour just to go through them and put them right side up! So i will only put a few up, because quite honestly going through them is not very exiting!

My take on Italy – Love the food, love the people, HATED the crowds, the public transport, and lack of toilets (including lack of toilet seats). This was the WORST time to go. There was lineups everywhere…..three hours to see most things unless you booked tours which we did and it paid off!

I saw all the big famous things though including:  the Vatican, Colesseum, Roman Forum, Trevi Fountain, Sistine Chapel, Spanish Steps, the Pantheon and a bunch of other stuff. While most of the things were amazing to see – it was definitely a test of patience. The crowds in these museums mirrored the type of crowds you’d see at a rock concert – it was RIDICULOUS!

some of my favourite flix of the trip (there are PLENTY other sites, however my attention span only was only attracted to the most obvious):

Legend has it that if you throw a coin into the foutain it means you will return again. I thought throwing in coins meant wishes so I threw in three….Guess i’ll be back!!

Then there was the Roman Forum which is like their old downtown for market, politics & business. First here are some shots of a nearby theatre where naked men would compete against each other in games for the entertainment of the elite – sounds like my kinda entertaining

Another one of my favourite highlights from the Rome trip was visiting the Vatican Museums which included a whollle rackload of art & statues…& the famous Sistine Chapel ( you know that one that Michelangelo did the roof of?!). I was however more interested in focussing on wall & ceiling paintings than any of the other things…including the Sistine Chapel of course! Beautiful paintings…heyyyyy i like-a-the Renaissance!! ehhhhhhhh!!!

The last part of the Vatican was the Sistine Chapel which was SO BUSY I lost my mom…..I had to get the tour guide to announce it over our audio guides …it was funny…she didnt find it amusing though. Also you’re not supposed to take pictures so we almost got kicked out a few times …. heheheh i snuck in some shots anyways…shhhhhhhh!!! oops~

There are plenty more pics of Rome! But these are my favourite! After Rome we visited Sorrento & Pompei. One day we took a bus around the Amalfi Coast. It was a nice view of the ocean from the steep mountains…but a little scary at times cause it felt like the bus was going to fall….the roads were super spirally  so much so that you get almost get motion sickness!!! and some guy did and puked like 4x on the way back….grosss!!! poor guy! I didn’t notice of course until my mom pointed him out – we had to provide him with some bags – the guy filled up 3!!! LOLLLL

anyways here are some day views of the coat – very beautiful

We also went to Pompei for a day to see some ruins of a city more than 5000 years old…the stories from the tour guide was impressive & interesting….but not so much picture worthy I don’t think. PLUS that day it decided to DOWNPOUR! So we were stuck outside in these ruins in the middle of a huge storm. It was intense, because most of the buildings were ruins they didn’t have a roof so we had to huddle in the corner of two walls and make a fortress of umbrellas…we did this for an hour. After this my Mom and I got fed up and left, but my Dad (the extreme tourist he is) stuck it out! He LOVES history…..

I’ve learned that I prefer Novelty over history which I’ll explain in another post.

Nevertheless the trip had its memorable moments….I’m going to post more pictures in detail on facebook. There are soooooooo many, however I forgot the meanings of all the statues and buildings. Hope you enjoyed my highlights via CARAVISIONS preference!

More updates to follow! xxx

Love in the universe.