Proposal for a Hike Up the Stromboli Volcano

Possible Seven Day Itinerary #

1. Fly to Napoli Italy. (700USD round trip.) Sleep
2. See Pompeii (or Herculaneum) Eat Margarita and house wine for dinner.
3. See a professional soccer game: Milan vs Napoli. Find where to buy tickets. Board ferry at dusk.
4. Arrive at Stromoboli at sunup. Disembark. Climb volcano. Spend night on Napoli or get next ferry.
5. Optionals: next ferry can go to Tunisia from here (Star Wars Episode 4), Palermo, or back to Napoli
6. Napoli day: National Museum of Archaeology
7. Home

Places mentioned in this guide #

• Stromboli - an island rising from nowhere, way out in the ocean, near Italy
• Stromboli - also the volcano which covers 80% of that island's surface, and erupts noisily twice a day
• Italy - a backdrop for awesomeness
• The National Museo di Archaeoliggia - More ancient imperial stuff than you can imagine
• Pompeii - an hour outside of Naples. Half of it has never been excavated. You can walk between the hundred houses. There's graffiti, ancient toilets, a tiny arena for the AAA ball club / gladiators
• Herculaneum - in case Pompeii isn't enough
• Italiano - like Spanish but easier
• Ferry boat - leaves Naples at dinner time, doesn't drop you off until 5 am, so you sleep in a little bunk room.
• Napoli (Naples) - Great town: has a soccer team, has stone urinals on the street. Home of all Neopolitan things, i.e. the Margarita pizza, banana gelato
• Optional: Tunisia, where Luke Skywalker lived. Reached from the same ferry in Naples that goes to Stromboli

Cost to fly Chicago to Napoli #

$700USD round trip

Danger level of the volcano #

Manageable. You can sort of see where most of the rocks come down during the eruptions.
Time up and down: 9am to 4pm. Very civilized; no early rising required.

Links #

Margarita
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