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    It's literally taken me two months to finish posting about my first Italy trip and I'm really excited to finish it up so I can start posting about some more recent trips! But I won't be done until I've talked about Rome!     Rome was definitely my favorite place to visit in Italy. It's not the cleanest (I have come to find out that Italy is quite poor and falling into disrepair in many areas.) nor the safest, but it is certainly one of the best, at least to me,  because it has everything my little archaeology heart could ever want; Ruins!!! They are literally everywhere. You cannot walk around without finding a city park with some beautiful, half-fallen building in it. UGH, it was so gorgeous. When you get out of the ghetto, it's really a pretty city, full of lush green gardens and these funny-looking trees that look like overgrown bonsais. Rome is a city that has been built overtop of itself multiple times, and the areas where ruins remain, have become...

    .... Naples. Oh my. What can I say about Naples? I have never been to a dirtier city. A city where I felt so unsafe. Upon arriving, my friend and I were immediately confronted with the fact that our booking agent had booked us a hotel that was not within walking distance, so we had to take the bus and we would continue to for the next three days. That was one of the most unpleasant experiences I have ever had. Humans are not meant to live the way people are living in Naples; squished like sardines, and treated like trash by the people around them. I hated it there.     I know, I know I sound really harsh, but at this point in the trip I was already really overwhelmed by the previous mishaps and here I was stuck in this dirty city in a hotel that was completely cut off from anything else. We had come to Naples to visit Herculaneum and Pompeii, two archaeological sites that are outside the city. We couldn't just walk to them, and we couldn't walk to the train ...