Hotel Forum Pompei
Via Roma 99 Pompei, Campania, 80045, Italy
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Mt Vesuvius and the Pompei ruins
The dads woke me early so we could leave old town Florence before the city woke too much - early was 8.35, so was ok. The roads into and out of old town Florence are really narrow and it is a restricted zone,we had special permission to enter from the hotel, which is good because they take photos of you and fine you if you are not meant to be there …
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Homeward Bound
... Alex kept our glasses filled and Vijay looked after us (and Bertie our ursine travelling companion ) very well indeed.
Suzanne and Pablo were great Ents officers and very good on the quizzes, too many clever folk on board though we didn't win a thing!
Bruce Morrison and Petra the Classical pianist were standouts in the entertainment which we attended more than usual.
So another fabulous cruise, nearly time for the next ...
Ruins of Pompei
... do with it what you like!" "Oh and by the way, here's a link to our website, we would appreciate it if you can give us feedback on you experiences with the solid white line"
Oh, and never give an Italian a courtesy gap into the jam packed traffic, as once one of them gets a nose in front of you, everyone else behind him in the side street automatically inherits full rights to that same gap... and you're stuck.
In no time though ...
Unravelling Naples, or trying and failing
... 8221; as we scuttle across the road to the relative safety of the other side.
As the world’s mecca of pizza, Naples’ streets are crammed with pizzerias and, much like the city’s street life, these establishments are chaotic and fast-paced. Mild-mannered Brits as we are, we found ourselves on more than one occasion being barged to one side by a queue-jumping. Stern words (in our garbled Italian-English crossover) were exchanged and our pizzas
arrived.
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Up Pompeii, way hey
After musing on the aftermath of last nights mosquito attack I eventually decide to get up and do something with the day. I have missed breakfast, which it turns out from subsequent encounters was worth missing.
I checked with reception how to get to Pompeii which seems straight forward enough. Catch the Salerno train from Garibaldi station and get off at Pompeii.
If only. After much confusion and not much merriment the train ...



