Breakfast at 7.30. Cornetti (croisants...these ones had jam inside), capuccino (sp?), etc.
Pompeii by 9. We got off and walked around for 8 hours. I love classics, Pompeii was amazing, but I can only do so many wall paintings in one day. I learned a lot, and it was amazing to walk in history.
Jan Gadeyne's two rules for touring Pompeii: (1) Kill any tourist you see, bonus points if you kill a whole group of them from a cruise ship; (2) Go into any open building because it may never be open again. The latter was very true, there were several buildings (I think between 3 and 5) that he had taken his other class to the previous weekend that were not open when we were there--only 7 days later. HOWEVER! We did get to go into a house (The House of the Vettii) that is closed to the public. It has been recently renovated and is now off limits (I'm not sure if it's permanent or not). It was SO cool. First of all, the paintings were the best preserved, and also, we had to call a guard who opened the gate with this key, let us in, came in himself, the locked us in (so no one else could get in) then had to unlock the gate to let us out. It was very cool to be touring this house and have people standing at the gate wondering how the hell they were going to get in. A tour group even started to enter as we were leaving and got kicked out (rather sternly, as well) by the guard. It was cool. They were jealous. More wall paintings.
We then went on to two more villas (of which you will see no pictures because my camera battery died). Finally completely exhausted we returned to the hotel.
Dinner and very deep sleep.
Ciao,
RomanTraveller
p.s. pictures won't be up until Monday--possibly even Tuesday--when I can get to school to use the real internet.
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