 Day 13 October 23- Naples, Italy: Photos 21 to 42 |
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Our last day. And as it turns out, I think this was our best day. I had hired a driver for the day, Mariano Fiorentino. We were going to tour Pompeii, then drive to Sorrento and the Amalfi coast to Positano. I met people on CruiseCritic to share this trip with also, Sandy and her husband. The day before I had asked them if they were interested in a guide for Pompeii, and they said sure, so I emailed Mariano and asked him to set up a guide for us.
We met at Cova Café again and were some of the first ones off the ship. I could not find what time I had told Mariano we would meet him, so I thought it best if we got an early start. We headed out of the port to where the taxis were and one of the drivers there told us we had walked past where the hired drivers were. So we went back and saw a line of vans, cars and buses. No one was approaching us, so we approached a group of drivers and found Mariano there. He was a very friendly, very “Italian” man. He was wonderful.
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Pompeii home
Mosaic of a dog in the entrance way. It was their way of saying "beware of dog". Looks like a doberman!
Pompeii home
The arched ceiling of a room is painted too. It was unusual to see blue paint in Pompeii
A public water fountain
Each fountain had a different gargoyle or figure, so you could use them as location markers. The brass spigot is a renovation addition. Fountains were fed an aquaduct
An aquaduct pillar
All that remains of the aqueduct are pillars such as this. The building you see in the background on top of the hill was left when excavation was done so you can see the land level prior to excavatio... [more]
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