To Pompeii and back to Roma

Up this morning to a lovely sunny day. Our breakfast buffet (at 7:00AM) was outside on the terrace.
The variety was unending.  From personal omelettes, fruit, breads and rolls, meat, cheese, bacon, sausage, fruit juice, half decent coffee.  Great

Off to Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius.
The ruins are quite the thing to see. Pompeii was covered with 30' of ash in 79 AD and not discovered until 1748. At that time the ruins were uncovered and preserved for us to wander through today

What they had in Pompeii is remarkable.  It is a whole village, with housing, a huge city square,  a "red Light" district with rooms.   In the rooms are stone beds with stone pillows.  Our guide, Enrico, assured us that they put a mattress was put on top of the bed.  There was a picture outside each room to show what positions were available!

I am not sure what the position in the above picture is but it is close to 2,000 years old so I imagine it's a  something that is still done.

They had spas, massages, and a theatre that held 5000 people for plays and another smaller one for music.  When the volcano erupted most of the people escaped but of course some got caught in the fallout of ash.  They had two preserved figures in glass cases.

We got to Rome to the Romanico Palace Hotel.  It is old, with gold and ornate decor, but beautiful.  The funny thing is:  the bathroom is totally modern with the shower with jets all down the wall and a jacuzzi tub.

Off to our arrivaderci dinner from Onsight.
What a great place and again a 4 course dinner with wine.
Sat with a number of new friends and listened to the restaurant people sing a number of Italian songs.

Tomorrow we return to the airport and get our rental car for 2 weeks "on the road".
Will we survive on our own in a country that we don't speak the language?
Stay tuned!!!