Maiuri Hotel Pompei
Via Acquasalsa, 20 Pompei, Campania, 80045, Italy
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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
... properly for display, obviously just temporarily stored for a number of years or decades.
We found the House of the Faun, and some of the other famous houses, but (fortunately) the erotic frescoes were closed for further restoration work, which saved us some uncomfortable viewing. We spent hours and hours in that lost city. It was really amazing.
Here and there among the ruins was some dusty stray dog lazing about in the sun. ...
Unravelling Naples, or trying and failing
... streets lined with cramped shops spilling over onto the pavement ride daredevil scooter-drivers, each seemingly in such a rush that they scream past pedestrians with barely a few inches to spare.
To cross a road in Naples is to take your life into your hands – in fact, you place it in others’ hands. We wait nervously at a zebra crossing, hoping that a local will take the first step into the roaring traffic. We become characters from a war movie: “OK ...
Pompei- Houses, wine stores and brothels
On the way to Pompei we saw Mt Vesuvius... huge mountian. It was a little overcast, but we could see the outline. Mount Vesuvius errupted in 79 AD and covered Pompei and at that time the town had aproximatly 20k inhabitants and was the vacation spot for many Romans. Pompei was a lot larger than I expected. Our guide showed us a house that people lived in. They had slanted roofs to ...
Up Pompeii, way hey
... to the ruins of Pompeii. As I am leaving the cab the taxi driver informs me that I should not have got off at Pompeii station as the actual station for the ruins is a hundred yards from the entrance, cheers Mr receptionist.
The first thing to say about the ruins is that they are HUGE, massive in area.
At the front gate there is a sign saying something along the lines of the ruins of Pomeii are vast, anyone with a dicky ticker ...
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