Italy Day 4 - Pompeii and San Felice

Unfortunately.... left the Amalfi Coast and Sorrento today... but I was really looking forward to seeing Pompeii.

Very glad for the Navman... wasn't actually that well signposted coming from sorrento and we were able to make a small wrong turn... but made it and found some parking relatively close to the gate.

My first impression of Pompeii... HUGE!!!!! I was really not expecting the magnitude... we quickly realised the 3 or 4 hours that we thought was going to be plenty of time was not going to be anywhere near enough... in the end I think we might have seen a total of 1/3 of the site. It's just amazing to think how long those buildings have been there... how many people had walked the same streets... and i love the concept of their courtyard houses... is now now part of my dream house!

From Pompeii we started heading back to Rome, we had organised a night in a little seaside town called San Felice so that we didn't have such a long drive back into Rome. We had had trouble finding anywhere available on the Internet and as we arrived in San Felice, we discovered why... wasn't because there was a major festival or anything... was simply that there was noone there! It's a thriving town in Summer as visitors come from Rome for weekends etc.. but in Winter it's a ghost town... All the streets were dark, no one around... turned into the driveway of our hotel and were met with locked gates! No one home! A little surprising.. they'd taken our booking.. and our money!

Ended up finding probably the only open hotel... which was ok but not great... but they directed us to an amazing restaurant. I think the owners of the restaurant were actually a little disappointed that we turned up though... being the only ones there I think they were hoping for an early night. Good for us though as we had 3 waiters and 2 chefs all to ourselves.. and the seafood was so fresh and yummy! A great meal and no English on the menu!!

[oh... BTW we did get the money back for the hotel]