Cash's Holiday

One of the main roads in old Pompei

 Hello, Time has slipped by, our three weeks in Soriano now finished.This post is mainly to say we are now traveling south taking in part of the `heel’ of Italy on way to Sicily. Staying in Soriano gave a real insite to everyday small town Italian life as its just off the tourist track. The English woman (married to an Italian-who I mentioned in an earlier blog) who looks after the apartment said Daves legs weren’t the talk of the town anymore….the latest gossip was about 6 American visitors who arrived in the piazza to eat at their preferred cafe/bar….found it closed(the other was open) so reported it to the local police !!!!! ….and apparently were heard to comment that the cafe would be charged. Is that how life goes in America…I doubt it.

So to the Ruins of old Pompei, just south of Naples (Napoli). A bit eerie walking through. A place where time was encased after Mt Vesuvius erupted 24th August 79 BC ….. most inhabitants perished, if not by the layers of burning pumice stone, then the poisonous gases given off. The area left till the 1800’s when excavations uncovered what is now exposed today. Thoughts of those perishedis there to see in the way of body casts (made by pumping plaster into hollows left by disintergrated bodies) One in particular in a crouched position with hands over nose and mouth. 

Staying two nights in Pompei gave us yesterday to drive round the Sorrentine Peninsula to see the great tourist mecca of the Amelfi coast. What a drive, the road high up above the sea, attached at times to a vertical face. Houses too in places that leave you wondering on their stability. Spectacular.

Must finish this now as time not on the blog side. To be continued ?……..(:) G