Sunday 6/19: Campania I: Breakfast. Our Sorrento Hotel--the Hotel Villa Maria--had the best breakfast yet: pastries, fresh fruit and juice, meat and cheese, rolls, cakes, cereal, yogurt, even scrambled eggs. I had eggs, yogurt, cake, and an orange. II: Pompeii. We entered from the Via Stabiana this time, where they've just built a new entrance. ...

Saturday, June 18: Bay of Naples Area. I: Breakfast. Last night we arrived at the middle of nowhere, or rather, the middle of an orchard, otherwise known as the Hotel Ipanema. Its location just outside of Naples was safer than being in that city at night. Ipanema was a nice, but quirky, hotel: no elevator; dining room on the 2nd, rather than gro...