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Via Minutella 27 Pompei, Campania, 80045, Italy
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Homeward Bound
So today is our last day and we head off early for a marginally better flight home on Thomson than coming. However there is the same palaver with cabin baggage and we had to sit in the coach for an hour before we could check in. But home almost on time and all the luggage arrived and we are in one piece so a good outcome!
Overall we had a wonderful time on our magical mystery cruise. We didn't get to Tripoli or Egypt or Tunisia but we had ...
Ruins of Pompei
... the entry fee at the gate, and then we were there.............. suddenly standing among the deafening silence of the ruins. Once again we were early, and had beaten most other tourists there. It was amazing. You could actually go in and touch the slowly aging Frescoes. I mean, we didn’t, but you could. The immensity of the excavated city was startling. And the sophistication of the town planning. The stone roads had the unmistakable ruts from ...
Unravelling Naples, or trying and failing
... its own making. Naples’ peculiar culture, in contrast, is rooted in the dominance (culturally, if not spiritually) of the Catholic Church, legions of industrial rubbish bins line the streets in front of churches, and the destructive presence of the Camorra continues to hold back otherwise vibrant and cultured communities.
A hour’s train ride up the coast, atop Sorrento’s dramatic cliffs are perched dozens of hotels, cafés and bars, all vying for the tourist ...
Pompeii and Amalfi coast - day 61
... br>
POMPEII...wonderful, awesome, humbling, amazing...i'm man enough to admit that before i booked this day-trip i thought pompeii was mythological and didn't reeeeeally exist - like atlantis...so once booked i downloaded a documentary about it and couldn't wait to see it in real life
it was built over 2000 years ago and preserved (and forgotten) under volcanic ash and stone for 1700 ...
Up Pompeii, way hey
... when the blinking Salerno train is going to arrive.
And we're off. Then we're not again. 15 minutes later after sitting in a siding we eventually gather enough momentum to take us to Pompeii.
The journey takes you right around the rocky coast, every inch of which is covered by locals sunbathing and swimming. No need for sandy beaches here.
Forty minutes later we arrive at Pompeii station, which I soon discover is not the ...



