We arrived at our hotel (Villa Pamphili, view from room at right) just outside Rome at ~11:00am and thankfully were 
able to check into our rooms, which we immediately put to good use for a 5-hour nap. Our tour group had an amazing seven-course welcome dinner at Quo Vadis, a local ristorante. A local musicial group (also named Quo Vadis) kept us entertained during dinner; Giuseppe played the accordion, a soprano and flutist had a few solos, and an exhuberant showman named Enzo kept the women blushing and everyone singing.
As I write this we are driving on the tour bus to Pompeii, where we'll see the excavation of the old city destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. Then it's off to the shops at Sorrento before heading to the pier to board a boat to the Island of Capri, where we'll spend the next 2 nights.
We spent a couple hours walking through the excavation site at Pompeii. I never realized how large the city was or how much of it you can walk through; you can walk the same streets as they did before the city's destruction and see all the shops, homes, and other buildings. It's amazing that the city was covered in ash at one time.
More photos on our Flickr photo site if you want to view more.
able to check into our rooms, which we immediately put to good use for a 5-hour nap. Our tour group had an amazing seven-course welcome dinner at Quo Vadis, a local ristorante. A local musicial group (also named Quo Vadis) kept us entertained during dinner; Giuseppe played the accordion, a soprano and flutist had a few solos, and an exhuberant showman named Enzo kept the women blushing and everyone singing.As I write this we are driving on the tour bus to Pompeii, where we'll see the excavation of the old city destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. Then it's off to the shops at Sorrento before heading to the pier to board a boat to the Island of Capri, where we'll spend the next 2 nights.
We spent a couple hours walking through the excavation site at Pompeii. I never realized how large the city was or how much of it you can walk through; you can walk the same streets as they did before the city's destruction and see all the shops, homes, and other buildings. It's amazing that the city was covered in ash at one time.More photos on our Flickr photo site if you want to view more.
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