Sorrento --> Pompei --> Sorrento
Well if you like really really old stuff then you'll love Pompei. A quick 30 minute train ride from Sorrento and we were walking down streets that had been paved some 2500 years ago. For about 1700 years Pompei was buried under 20 metres of ash. It's only in the last couple of hundred years that they've been digging it out. They think they've found about 40% so far.
We wanted to have some idea of what we were seeing, so we paid our 15 euro and joined a guided tour. In keeping with what seems to be a trend, our tour guide was a grumpy old bastard. He certainly knew his stuff and he took us to all the main attractions, but you couldn't help but get the impression that he actually hated tourists and he wished he was someplace else.
It was a stinking hot day, so after walking around for nearly 5 hours we were buggered. All the old buildings, pillars and amphitheatres were amazing, but I think was most taken with the roads. You could actually see the groove marks in paved roads where chariots used to drive. And there were even pedestrian crossings made from raised stones so people wouldn't get their feet wet.Oh .... and I shouldn't forget the ancient brothel that was covered in paintings that depicted different sexual positions. That was pretty memorable too!
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