This past weekend was spent touring the area of Naples! We left Thursday morning to visit a Buffalo Mozzarella Farm and to have a Thanksgiving Day country lunch, Friday was the Archaeological Museum and Pompei, Saturday was Paestum, and Sunday was the city of Naples itself. It was a long, relaxing, and super fun weekend :) I'll need a solid 3 posts to cover it all..
The buffalo farm was exactly what you might picture in your head - it was a factory for mozzarella cheese with a huge area in the back for all the animals. The cheese is made fresh everyday and quickly shipped out to the surrounding area (I say 'quickly' because mozzarella lasts only about 4 days after being made..and each day it goes down in quality. The cheese we had for lunch that day was literally made hours before we ate it...and it was the BEST I have ever had. Just saying.) We got to tour the factory and watch as the workers finished packing the mozzarella in saltwater bags, then went to the back to visit the buffalo (including the mommy milk-producing buffalo, the bulls, and the babies..), as well as the donkeys, horses, pigs, birds of every kind, and jack rabbits. Pictures below!
Last note is that after all this, we got to have our Thanksgiving Lunch in the factory's restaurant. I'm very sure I have never eaten that much in one meal in my life - it was a solid 2 1/2 hour meal, with a huge plate of appetizers (mozzarella as far as the eye can see..and meat..and bread..and other things the names of which i do not know), then pasta, then an actual meat/vegetable dish, then fruit, then dessert. It was ridiculous. And awesome.
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