Today we arrived in the port of Naples and we chose to go to Herculaneum. It took a few tries early in the morning to find an open ticket station, but we finally found one, got on the metro to the train station, bought a ticket on the Circumvesuviana train which took about 20 minutes to get to Herculaneum. Then it was a nice downhill walk to the small but beautifully preserved site. It’s right on the beach but about 70 feet below ground level, as that’s how deep the ash was.
We returned to Naples in time for lunch, and then we walked. Oh boy did we walk. As I write this my feet are propped up and I gulped down a couple more Tylenol’s. From the metro to the museum and than all the way back to the ship. Yes, it was downhill, but the ‘sidewalk’ is cobblestones, uneven and crooked. And we managed to get across the streets without getting run over. And now I think I know where the word cacophony came from. Naples is gritty and loud and exuberant and tough. It was a blast!
This afternoon is final packing, then final dinner tonight, and we depart early tomorrow morning for our hotel in Rome. I will try and post at least once from there, but it is hard to believe our cruise is over. But we are ready to come home, catch up on the news and get back to real life.
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