Today isn’t really suitable for a sailing
blog as we are sightseeing. I have
a terrible night coughing all the time and getting little sleep. But we still manage to get out of the
boat by 8:30 am to get to Pompeii.
We walk halfway across the town to the railway station only to discover
it is the wrong station. The one
we want is closer to the boat! It
is called the Circumvesuviana. Now
you are probably more clever than me, but it has take me half a day to realize
it means going around Vesuvius!
So when we get to the right station we
buy remarkably cheap tickets and are on our way.
We arrive at Pompeii by 9:30, so we have
a very long day doing as much as we can.
It has a lot more to see than when we were here 35 years ago. On the other hand a lot of the exhibits
are closed for renovation, which is a bit frustrating. But we have had a really good day, if
exhausting. For those of you who
care, my Nike Band says I’ve amassed Fuel of just over 4800 and done just under
13,200 steps! So no wonder we are
tired.
We have supper on the boat. I have finally found a butcher here,
but he had run out of calves liver, so my Fegato Veneziana will have to wait
for another day.
The weather has turned a bit. It was very hot and sunny all day, but
hazy again. We did however,
finally see Vesuvius in the distance beyond Pompeii. But now on the boat it has started to rain and the forecast
is for some rain tomorrow. Not
sure where we will go. We thought
of Capri until we read that it is the most expensive marina in the world, so we
will give that a miss.
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