Pompeii

Don and I spent the next two days exploring the ship and port cities which was restful.

On the fourth day we stopped in Naples, Italy and decided to make it on our own to Pompeii. The taxi drivers were out in full force as we exited the ship, but we made it through them and went to look for the city bus... which would take us to the train to Pompeii. None of us knew any Italian so it was quite comical. The last picture is the "boys" trying to buy the tickets for the bus to the train station.

When we got to the bus, we didn't quite know where to get off and one of our shipmates was from the phillipines and she started asking questions of another philippino (in Tagalog) on the bus... she took us to the right station.

Then we had trouble finding the right train and an elderly train station attendent took us under his wing and led us to the right train.... at least we hoped he was taking us to the right train... we figured if he headed for an alley we'd run the other way! The second picture is us waiting for the train and still not knowing if he led us in the right direction! Of course when we got there, he held his hand out for a tip!!!

We did make it to the right train and found out there were two Pompeii's, fortunately we got off at the right one.