Mec Pompei
Via Plinio 52 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
... ancient Roman chariots that passed through it.
There were even speed bumps along the roads. It was amazing to think that they already had speed limits back in the days of the Roman chariot... the mere thought of it brought a sense of kinship and tangibility to the surroundings, and if you listened closely, you could almost hear the rattling of the wheels, and the bustling of people and horses around you. In the distance we were ...
Unravelling Naples, or trying and failing
... game of ‘spot the gangster’ is an ongoing source of entertainment during our four days in the city. But beneath the exotic veneer, organised crime has leached many millions out of this already deprived city over many decades. Despite walls being daubed in huge amounts of anarchist, communist and fascist graffiti (not forgetting the many murals across the city of the Mastiffs football fan club), it is the Comorra who are the real movers on the streets here.
Stepping ...
Pompeii and Amalfi coast - day 61
... as the bones of the people who lived there, the city shows how ingeniously the romans planned and built their cities...running sewerage and water for everyone, saunas which were heated in other parts of the baths and had the heat tunneled to specific rooms, recycling, one way and two way streets, structures and streets built for the best use of light
our archaeologist/guide was saying that his ...
Up Pompeii, way hey
... to get off at to visit the ruins of Pompeii. It is if you wish to visit the small, quaint and still in one piece town of Pompeii.
Out front a taxi driver explains to me that the main entrance to the ruins is a least a twenty minute walk and that you really do not want to be doing that sort of thing in this weather.
At this juncture I need to point out that Roberto, who you met last time remember, gave me important instructions ...



