Pompeii
On our last day I visited Pompeii, famous for being the Roman city frozen in time after it was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. For 1,500 years Pompeii was covered by 20 feet of ash and pumice, preserving...
From Naples To The Amalfi Coast
I had a late morning, waking up at around 11am and packing up by 12pm. I then hopped on the commuter rail towards Napoli Centrale, where you can easily walk 2 minutes to switch over to the Circumvesuviana, an independently run train service that goes...
I Love the Smell of Naples in the Morning
After a 3 hour train ride from Bari to Caserta, I made a connection there for a 1 hour local train to Naples: Once arriving into the Napoli Centrale station, I discovered that Naples has been enduring some kind of public...
From Croatia To Italy (Dubrovnik to Bari)
The goal was to get from Dubrovnik, Croatia to Bari, Italy via an overnight ship. I found that every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, a Jadrolinija ship departs from Dubrovik to Bari at 10pm. So I got the cheapest deck tickets (by deck, I mean literally on...
Landing In King’s Landing: Dubrovnik
If it's not already playing, press play. And then start reading. Dubrovnik, aka "Pearl of the Adriatic" and "King's Landing" of Game of Thrones' fame, lies near the borders of Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina and was once a city-state that...
From Split, Via Bosnia-Herzegovina, To Dubrovnik
Just took a 5 hour bus fSplit to Dubrovnik for 125 kn. If you're doing this route, make sure you sit on the right side of the bus to get the best views:
Serenade From Split
I just decided to take a random trip to Croatia, just because (do we need reasons to travel anymore?)...And somewhere along the coast of the Adriatic Sea I found a lovely city called Split. From Croatia's capital, Zagreb, I took a one hour flight...
A Road Trip Through Jamaica
Anderson and I arrived into Kingston, Jamaica at around 4pm in the afternoon and we only had about 16 hours here before our flight home the next morning. What was there for us to do? A friend that I had met during residency interviews a...