7/6 Hiking makes your butt muscles hurt! We all met downstairs for breakfast at 8. It was included in the price of the hotel (thank you baby Jesus!) and was actually pretty decent. The waitress was super sweet and brought me some really good hot chocolate. We then all went back to our rooms to pack our backpacks for the day. We made our way down to the tourist office where we got some info on the gondolas and trains that go up the mountain. Everyone but Combes ...

7/5 "Wait... This trip is costing me how much?!" We got up just before 5 AM after about 4 1/2 hours of sleep. We brought our luggage down, loaded it into our awaiting taxi, and headed to the train station. We had about 30 mins. so Chris and I ran to a coffee shop to get breakfast- chocolate croissants. We hurried back and were soon on the train. It was a pretty long ride. We got off, switched trains, got on another one and were headed to our next destination- ...

7/2 Ciao Massa Lubrense! Benvenuto Spello! I got up early to pack the last of my things and to carry my luggage up the 80 or so steps to the top where our driver would be picking us up to take us to the Naples train station. Paul, Leona and Leah left at 5 am so our group was down to 7. Our driver, Massimo, got there at about 7:00 and we were off to Naples. Once we got to Naples, we unloaded our things and went into the station. I hadn't yet activated my Eurail ...

7/1 Positano and Amalfi.... Yeee! Since everyone had already done an Amalfi/Positano tour on Tuesday while I was still traveling to the villa, I decided to tour both towns with Combes. We left the villa at 9, bought bus tickets, and bussed to the harbor. We spent 13 euro to take a 40 min. ferry ride to Positano. We would have taken a bus which would have been half the price, but as we found out a couple days prior, the busses we would have had to go on were on ...

7/4 When In Rome... Celebrate the Fourth of July! We got to sleep in today because our train wasn't going to leave Spello until about 11:30. I didn't get up until about 8:30. Combes said he couldn't find where the breakfast buffet was. It wasn't right near the lobby like it had been the day before. That had me nervous because I had to have that awesome breakfast. We got down to the lobby and the woman working at the desk said breakfast would be on the patio tod...