Up Pompei way

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Pompei is a wreck! I mean you thought Naples was a dump, Pompei is practically unihabitable. It is an amazing place, a bit of a mix between gosh wow ruins and well intentioned rebuilding without too much reference to the original blue prints. Getting to Pompei is a breeze, train from Sorrento and the ruins are right outside the station. There is something eerily familiar about the streetscape and despite what I am sure is a certain amount of poetic license having been taken the effect is still one of familiarity of scale. This is not too dissimilar to what we could quite easily regard as a comfortable lifestyle provided you are not born anything other than a wealthy Roman.
We were hustled into taking a guide but he did prove to be helpful in gaining a more full experience than would have come to us just wandering around saying "gosh" a lot.
Writers far more erudite than I have written about the city itself and the final day which killed 2,000 people so for a commentary of that sort best look elswhere.
We spent about 3 hours before being chased out by a loathing of school children on excursion, and finding somewhere to have lunch. A decorator I met told us that there was a good place for a meal and a beer nearby and sure enough there was. We had pizza in the Galle Nero and drank ourselves some beers before hopping the train back to Sorrento and a coffee. W e found a supermarket in the main street of Sorrento and bught a few necessities of life, Tooth paste, razors and Chivas.
For the evening meal we hopped in the car for a quick drive to Massa Lubrense and a meal at the trattoria Tritone which was preety good apart from the desert, a local delicacy made with Ricotta and lemon zest, not horrible just bland.
Back to the hotel for a glass or three of the chivas,,,,
Tomorrow the Amelphi Coast,

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Photos

Pompei
streeet scene

Pompei villa
Reconstructed but near enough to probable feeling

PomPei
Not hard to imagine