Good morning guys.
This is going to be our last apartment tour here on our trip in Europe because this is
our last apartment we're staying in.
And we've been staying in Pompei, Italy for a week.
And we've done so many cool things using this as our base.
But before I talk about that let's give you a tour of the actual apartment.
So here this is the door.
If you take a quick peak outside you can see that we're staying in a house and there is
a little table over here.
Yeah, this is going to be a fast tour because we have a train to catch so luggage already
out.
Yeah, we're all set to go.
We're late as per usual.
So over here we had a cool table which we used for both working and eating.
Um, up here some nice artwork.
Very Italian.
Yeah, and we visited basically the first week of December and so it was cold so we were
making really good use of that heater over there.
Alright, on to the couch.
So we just hung out and watched Netflix here.
I love this panorama.
Tada.
Yeah, it is kind of a panoramic photo of Naples.
Yeah, of Naples and you have the Bay of Naples and then off in the distance you have Mount
Vesuvius.
The imposing Mount Vesuvius.
We went up there.
That was a true highlight of our stay here.
Okay, let's quickly go into the kitchen.
So into the kitchen here.
This is yeah it was nicely fully stocked.
We made full use of this.
We were making our own pastas.
Especially we were keying in on ravioli.
We had the pumpkin ravioli.
Truffle ravioli.
Truffles with what gorgonzola cheese.
Yeah, and spinach and feta.
Oh my gosh.
I can't go back to Canada and make pasta and expect it to be nearly as good as what we
had here.
We also made really good tomato sauces and stuff.
So yeah, the stove was right here.
This was the stovetop.
We made really good use of that.
There is an ancient kettle.
It really was.
It was ancient.
It was so annoying.
We'd go to turn it off and sorry we'd have it plugged in with boiling water.
It would just keep boiling.
It would never stop boiling.
It is kind of dangerous because we kept it on a few times and it kept going and going.
But you know what was nice?
Our host left us a little basket with like croissants and muffins and crackers and jams.
Most of it is gone because I ate the muffins.
We put a huge dent in that.
Yeah.
Okay so moving on so yeah this was basically a living area and kitchen and then in here
we had uh a fairly spacious bathroom in terms of surface area.
But maybe the world's smallest shower.
Oh my gosh.
Like it was so small this was annoying because there was so many good things about this shower.
Like the water pressure was just right.
Tonnes of hot water for this time of year which I really appreciated but like actually
being in this shower like as a man of over six feet I couldn't bend down to pick up the
shampoo.
So let me come show what I had to do.
I jammed no no come look.
I jammed the bottle here so that I would actually be able to access the shampoo and soap.
It is still standing.
It is still there.
That was how I had to modify my shower.
But the actual bathroom itself was pretty big.
The toilet was good.
Nice sink.
Yeah, so no complaints.
Bidet in the corner.
Tiny ridiculously tiny shower.
Hahaha.
Okay this is the bedroom.
Okay we're in the bedroom.
Bedroom.
Nice big bed.
Again more artwork.
And the most important thing in the bedroom was this.
Heat.
The heater.
We would turn that on before we go to bed and sometimes we'd have it on at night while
we were sleeping.
Other times we'd turn it off and when we turned it off we woke up really cold.
Mmmhmm.
So keeping that on was pretty much essential for staying warm.
Um and then over here we had a wardrobe and lots of extra blankets as well for winter.
We totally appreciated that.
Um yeah so actually traveling here in the winter was totally fine in terms of like being
able to heat the place.
Being able to have lots of hot water.
And so yeah this place scores really highly for that.
Anyways, I'm going to sit down on the couch and tell you why I think Pompeii is kind of
like the perfect place to base yourself when you're in this region of Italy.
Let's go sit down.
Okay, let's go.
So first before I forget let's talk about the price.
So we got this place for $43 dollars (US) a night.
Mmmhmm.
Which I thought was an absolute steal with a weekly discount.
It is offseason.
Keep that in mind.
Yeah but we're basically in a house.
Like this is our own private house.
We have a gate.
Yeah.
It just felt very secure.
It was quiet here.
Really good location and keep in mind when we stayed for instance in Matera we were paying
$70 dollars a night.
Yeah.
And when we were researching places nearby like Sorrento uh it was that was over $100.
Oh my gosh.
There were some places that were over a hundred.
There were some other places that were like $80 or 90 but they were 70, 80, 90 but they
weren't in a good location.
And what was great about Pompei so first off the price.
Yes.
Mentioned the price.
Now the actual city of Pompei is really nice.
It has a really nice um like downtown area.
Mmmhmm.
Some great restaurants that we loved.
Yep.
It is clean, it feels safe here.
It just was a really cool place to be based because we were kind of literally at the halfway
point between all of these things that we were doing while we were here.
Yeah, so we took a lot of day trips.
We ended up going to Sorrento in the south, then we had Herculaneum and Vesuvius which
was slightly north.
Yep.
Then we also did Naples.
We were also close to Naples.
Yeah, so for instance if you were to stay in Naples you would have been staying in a
more chaotic city.
Yeah.
Chances are the prices of apartments may have even been higher there and every single day
trip you'd want to do that we just mentioned would be would be further south.
Yeah.
Whereas we were kind of in the middle.
Yeah.
And that made it really cool.
Whereas if you were to stay in somewhere like Sorrento which is also really nice you would
be paying a lot more but then everything you would want to be doing would be further north.
Yeah, exactly.
There is just so much to do in this area.
LIke aside from what we did there was also the Isle of Capri which we didn't have time
to do.
Yeah, that would be lovely in the summer but not this time around.
And we also didn't get to explore the Amalfi Coast either.
Yeah.
So there is so much to do in this area.
And we were able to do a lot.
Keep in mind we only had one day that we were in.
Because of rain.
Well the day we arrived and then another day in but it was like 5 days of pretty decent
weather.
Yeah.
Which we were very lucky to have this time of year.
We were out exploring and doing everything.
Like we did Pompeii, we did Herculaneum, we did Vesuvius.
We did Sorrento and we did 2 days in Naples mostly eating pizza.
Yes.
Yes, so we were absolutely this was the end of our trip we absolutely like we did not
work hardly at all.
It was all about travel.
Mmmhmm.
And it just shows you how much you can do with kind of a week in this area.
Highly recommend coming.
It was just so cool everywhere was so different from each other.
And uh yeah that is basically it from us from Pompeii, Italy.
We've got a train to catch so we're going to say tata for now and we'll see you guys
on the travel vlog which is actually taking us back to Canada.
See you guys soon.
Bye.