"I Have A Thing For Ferries"

Wednesday night, at 10pm, we were on the Adriatic Sea en route to Ancona, Italy.

Whereas I was expecting our ferry to look somewhat similar to the ferries that go between New York City and Staten Island, it looked more similar to the Titanic. Ok maybe that was an exaggeration, but still. There was a restaurant, several cafe-bars and lots of couches. After snooping through the majority of the ship, Sarah and I laid down in our unbelievably uncomfortable "aircraft style seats" for one of the most terrible nights sleep I've ever had. However, waking up at 6am and seeing the sun rising behind us as we arrived into Ancona made it all worth it.

Don't even know how to pronounce this, but it brought me from Croatia to Italy in one piece, so it must mean something impressive!

Sunrise Over the Adriatic Sea

Sunrise into Ancona, Italy

First View of Ancona!

Ancona (or at least Ancona's train station)

There are two buses every day that go straight from Ancona to Naples. One at 7:30 am, one at 2:30 pm. Since we didn't get off the boat until after 8 o'clock, we had to stay at the Ancona train station for six hours. Hold on. I don't think you heard me. Six. Hours. 

Somehow we made it through the brutal six hours and caught our bus to Naples. This is going to be another one of those experiences better described using picture rather than words, but I'll just say briefly: it was breathtaking. Rolling hills of all different shades of green leading the way to steep, rocky and snow-covered mountains. I wanted so badly to nap and make up for my terrible night's sleep the night before, but I couldn't tear my face away from the window.

If you look closely, you can see the little hole through which we came (right through the middle of a mountain)

At a little after 9 pm, we made it into Naples and somehow found our way to the hostel - whose front desk woman directed us to the best pizza in Napoli; and therefore the world: Pizzeria Gino Sorbillo. We spent our last waking hour of the day consuming some the of the best pizza I've ever had. And the entire pizza was only 3€!!!

Allllllll gone :)

After devouring the pizza, we crawled into bed and prepared for our next destination - Capri :)

À Bientôt!