Sweet Stabiae

From Napoli I traveled on to Stabiae, which is situated on the Mediterranean...on the coast of the Bay of Naples, to be exact. The above is the view from my room in the hostel. This little town is quite enjoyable, but not for the faint of heart: it has an adequate little downtown district on the beach, but this could only accessed by a 15 minute walk through a narrow, rat-maze of a ghetto. I would never have attempted it by myself, but with ten friends walking around me the journey was interesting rather than dangerous. The inhabitants looked amazed to see tourists! By the time we reached downtown, it was almost dark, but I still enjoyed myself: there was a narrow jumble of huge, black rocks curving out into the bay and one adventurous friend and I hopped and jumped our way to the very farthest point. That moment--standing on a little rock perhaps two feet square, lapped by the darkening Mediterranean just as the sun set--is perhaps one of the best of the trip so far! Afterwards we explored the mainstreet, were adopted by one of the many stray dogs of the city and enjoyed gelato before heading back to the hostel.