Pompei. Isnt it exotic? Not as touristy as the other major cities. We went up mt vesuvius by a private bus which cost us 30 more euros as the public bus went on strike, according to the locals. Here, many cant speak english. Those who can understand few words are already v rare. But this chicken and duck language gave us a mixture of experiences. Some are really racist, but doesnt matter as we couldnt understand what they are saying anyway, only by body language. Some are really frenly, tried very hard with gestures and their blabbering. We even use my note 2 to draw to ask if there is chilli flakes for the spaghetti. Very fun actually. We thus picked up the numbers in italian very quickly for the prices too.
The road trip to the mountain is rather horrible. He drove very fast even at turns, kenna motion sickness. The roads are also cobbled in the town, thus v bumpy. He drove us up to the 1000m altitude where then we trod up the slope towards the crater. Almost puke blood when they say they dun want climb, then shld have said so earlier?! They say din know so high. I told them to wait here then, i go myself. My bro joined me. The view is indeed breathtaking, where we can see the entire town and city. The slope is jus soft soil with some rocks, not exactly paved. Really cool, wish we can spend more time up there. then we saw dad ! Then where are the younger ones? It turned foggy, fortunately only after all the shutters, we were practically in the clouds. And we finally saw the others appeared from the fog. Totally surprised and congratulated them for the achievement. We were given only abt 1.5hrs at 170eur in total. We had to rush down first to hold the driver, for fear he jabo without us, bluffed him to wait abit more cos pple nt feeling well. A white lie la.
After the descend, we went to a restaurant, which we totally condemn, they were v busy, and prolly racist too. Food was lousy too, took half an hr to pay the bill, wanted to leave after asking 3 times and even stood and waited at the counter. Why r they more interested in seating and serving pple instead of collecting money? If we had a train to rush, we would have jus siam.
Unfortunately, we jus had to enter the drama again a second time, tho still counting. Jus cant stand certain behaviours and attitudes. Aye i shldnt be reminding myself of these incidents to avoid erupting the volcano within me. My cousin said that i was too quick to ignite, while my bro kept it within until a very explosive eruption, the other bro is jus too extremist as well. how can she dump food that she doesnt like to dad and jus take his plate away?! Leaving him with no choice, we gave him our portion as obviously hers was puny and horrible, handpicked by herself. Then after the meal, i jus cant keep mum. Never eat ur food selectively was what we were taught, then why is dad 纵容-ing such attitude? And i had to fend for my bro, couldnt stand pple blindly malign and put words into others' mouth. How dare she blame him for instigating all against her? And i was really appalled by her asking what has she done wrong and her reply of her only weakness is being too kind. Pukes..urgh...typing this sentence is polluting my page. Totally beyond cure. and since she cant tell me what duty do i have to point out what i think her weaknesses are, i dont need to spout a word. Too bad if she doesnt have self awareness and she is free to think what she wants, but she cant stop me from loathing her. Crap.
My dad was kind to ask if she wants to join, and she still say why must she let so many pple bully. Dotz leh..despicable. continue to dwell in self pity lor. Really shld go and atone her sins. Anyway how much i cheered in my heart for her absence.
Went to salerno by metro, 1.5 hrs of standing and it was super hot! Conversed with lots of gestures on the metro in case we took the wrong direction. And the metro was packed like sardines! Many pple couldnt get up from other stops at all. Upon reaching the destination, jus a shopping place with supposedly nice xmas lights, but not to mention orchard road, tampines mall can qie this easily. Sigh. Anyway we managed to get a helmet for dad, a v cool looking one indeed, for 150 eur. Then we grabbed pizza before heading back. We took the regionale train this time and we reached in 20min. Really condemn their metro.
The next morning. It rained. Phew. We didnt postpone the mt vesuvius climb to today. Dad doesnt want to explore the ruins so we sat ard to chat instead. Ate chicken and potato for lunch before taking the regionale train to napoli where we will transfer to milano centrale.
At naples, the supposedly unsafe place with lots of snatch theives, we were wary. We took turns to roam abt abit, while the rest look after the luggage. There are indeed suspicious looking pple ard but there are polizia on petrol too. There is a police office right inside the napoli centrale station. An italian lady tried to tell us to look after our luggage, lots of hand signs too but we got what she mean, sceptical of her a little as well. She dropped a coin, we decided not to pick up in case she wants to extort more from us. If she claims that she dropped more, then we will be digging our own graves.
Not a very relaxed trip, got to wait for pple, got to be porters, got to navigate, got to be alert and look out for each other. But still got some stoning time in churches, in the streets of small towns, in the bathroom and on trains. And i know alot more abt pple's styles when u really had to commit these 2 wks with one another from day to night. Like camping, where we learnt alot more underneath if we choose to.
Now on the train to milan, 300km/hr, took the business class at an offer rate. Ok time to sleep, will only reach at 1140pm. Oyasumi nasai.
