Blog post continued

So, to continue from yesterday. The dudes who run the hostel are three Italian brothers, and their family also owns a restaurant and a hotel. Last night they piled 8 of us into a tiny tiny van and recklessly (yet skillfully) drove us up to the restaurant. It was seriously like the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland--sometimes you are going 40 miles an hour toward a wrought-iron gate, only to swerve into a 5-foot-wide alley at the last minute, where you will narrowly miss an elderly man, who canes out of the way into a doorway. Anyways, the restaurant was amazing, and Napolitan pizza needs its own blog post. They fire these things in 900 deg F wood-burning ovens, and the only thing on the dough is bufala mozzerella, tomatoes, and a few sprigs of basil; it is mouth orgasm. At midnight we took a bus down to some natural hot springs, which are heated by the island's volcanic activity. Some of the pools are scalding, while others are quite cold. It's a complicated ritual to swirl some hot and cold water around you in order to get the right temperature. The experience was heightened by 6 bottles of homemade wine. Today we just hit the beach and got some sun. We met a couple girls from Norway who are pretty chill, a girl from Alberta, and a couple dudes from E Washington, and we've been hanging out with them. We will probably extend our stay here a bit, as we hear Rome is kind of ridiculous. Tomorrow we'll hike up the volcano, it's going to be awesome. More posts to follow on the past couple weeks.
-SB