Story Dust and Wanderlust.

I've already raved about one beach in Italy, but that was not even the best one I'd seen. The same trip that took us to Mt. Vesuvius also took us to Positano- one of the little beach towns along the Amalfi coast in the region of Campania. This time, no one was running late because it was a day dedicated to just spending all our time on the beach and the little shops along the way. A day I appreciated very, very much. Reader, here's another fun fact about me. I'm a water baby. I can spend hours together in the water; it could be a pool, a beach, sometimes even the shower, if I'm being totally honest. So Positano, along with a bunch of other places along the Amalfi coast, was definitely on my list of places to visit - you'll recall I had a long list - not because Positano was a beach and I'm obsessed with beaches, but because you couldn't travel to Italy and not let the extravagant beauty of the Amalfi coast stimulate your senses. Does that so

It is a widely known fact that Mount Vesuvius is 17,000 years old, with the oldest rock being about 300,000 years old. It is also a widely known fact that wearing sandals on a day you know you're going to climb a mountain - a very old and rocky mountain - is not the best idea. But as usual, reader, I had forgotten to check in with common sense. During our visit to Campania, which we did through a student travel company called Smarttrip, one of the highlights was that we got to climb Mount Vesuvius. To say the view from the top was breathtaking would be an understatement. It was a very dull and windy day, and the top of the mountain had disappeared behind a thicket of clouds. So as we slowly trudged on to the top - correction: I slowly trudged on because of all the times I had convinced myself workouts were boring; Harry was way ahead of me - little streaks of 'cotton candy' had begun to pass me by. As I went higher, and the streaks turned into clumps, I star