Thursday we moved on towards Pompeii. We stopped over night at another vineyard, Rosalba Vendrame, near Pontina, just south of Latina. Of course, in the morning we had to do the wine tasting again and buy some more wine.

Friday we travelled to Pompeii, I have never seen such bad driving in all my life on the way there, scary roads. Anyway got there safe and sound and the site is about 100yards from the entrance to the ruins of Pompeii and we have a train station outside the campsite as well.

Saturday we went into the ruins and spent over 5 hours going round the site and still only saw about half of it. This place is fantastic. You can hardly believe how the people of Pompeii were living 2000 years ago compared to 2000 years ago in Britain. The houses were huge and the temples had columns over 11 meters high. The buildings have beautiful frescoes, with the colours still really bright, complete mosaics and outstanding sculptures and garden ornaments.  There is an amazing amphitheatre and two theatres. The two theatres are mostly complete but a lot of the seating is missing from the amphitheatre. This is a must visit if you are in the area.

Sunday we went up Mount Vesuvius, you firstly get on a bus that takes you to the foot of the mountain, then into a huge 4x4 truck/bus up to 1050 meters and then you have to walk the rest of the way to the crater. The walk takes about 45 mins at a good pace, which was just as well because we had to be back on the bus in an hour and a half. There wasn’t any heat but there was a little bit of smoke coming out of the side of the crater. 

Today, Monday 28th May, we took the train to Sorrento hoping to get a boat trip along the Amalfi coast but apparently they only run on a Thursday. We took a sightseeing tour in an old trolly bus on wheels. The driver was playing a tambourine to the music which was playing on the bus. At times he didn’t even have a hold of the steering wheel and even stood up to sing, yes while driving! Only in Italy. We didn’t see much more of Sorrento as it started to rain quite heavily.

Moving on tomorrow we are going to do the drive of death along the Amalfi coast line, will let you know next time if we have survived.

TTFN