Taking all the suggestions we bypassed Naples and stayed in Sorrento. On the way though we stopped in Pompeii for what ended up being one of those ‘went there for the sake of it’ places. Unsurprisingly yet more ruins weren’t helped by the fact that there were no maps and without a guide we, like many we met just walked around not knowing if we’re missing something apart from the endless walls and streets. We did though find some so called human remains that are preserved by ash either praying or perhaps they too were visitors some centuries after the initial eruption and got stuck in with no map. Thankfully we got out and got to our accommodation up the hill from Sorrento.
Due to the Pompeii horror show we got there a little too late to fully look around but a little ride down the hill showed that it’s a nice place but perhaps not quite as nice as I had always assumed it to be. It turned out that just over the hill from where we were staying the Amalfi coast was actually nearer and as we rode that coastline it seemed pretty clear that should we go back someday then that is the place that looks the business, the towns Postalino and Almalfi in particular. Unfortunately though like the French Riviera these places are no secret and the painfully slow traffic was a testament to this.
With a boat waiting still some hundreds of kilometres away eventually we got off the coast road and hit the fast forward button to Brindisi. There wasn’t too much to report on the crossing really so I won’t.
Taking all the suggestions we bypassed Naples and stayed in Sorrento. On the way though we stopped in Pompeii for what ended up being one of those ‘went there for the sake of it’ places. Unsurprisingly yet more ruins weren’t helped by the fact that there were no maps and without a guide we, like many we met just walked around not knowing if we’re missing something apart from the endless walls and streets. We did though find some so called human remains that are preserved by ash either praying or perhaps they too were visitors some centuries after the initial eruption and got stuck in with no map. Thankfully we got out and got to our accommodation up the hill from Sorrento.
Due to the Pompeii horror show we got there a little too late to fully look around but a little ride down the hill showed that it’s a nice place but perhaps not quite as nice as I had always assumed it to be. It turned out that just over the hill from where we were staying the Amalfi coast was actually nearer and as we rode that coastline it seemed pretty clear that should we go back someday then that is the place that looks the business, the towns Postalino and Almalfi in particular. Unfortunately though like the French Riviera these places are no secret and the painfully slow traffic was a testament to this.
With a boat waiting still some hundreds of kilometres away eventually we got off the coast road and hit the fast forward button to Brindisi. There wasn’t too much to report on the crossing really so I won’t.
No comments:
Post a Comment