Travels WithJohn and Janice

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The boat houses at HerculaneumItaly
4 min read2016

Dateline June 8, 2016, Pompeii and Herculaneum

We gave our one full day from Sorrento to Pompeii and Herculaneum, and a guide named Rosanna turned it into one of the best days of the whole trip. She made the dead cities live again: the shops and bakeries, the wagon ruts worn into the stone, the picture signs for people who could not read, and the plaster casts of those caught by the eruption. At Herculaneum we stood by the boat houses her own professor helped excavate.

#Pompeii#Herculaneum#Mount Vesuvius
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Mount Vesuvius at night from SorrentoItaly
4 min read2016

Dateline June 7, 2016, Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast

Sorrento gave us a beach apartment with Mount Vesuvius framed in the window, reached only after our phone tried to march us off a cliff. From there we drove the hair-raising switchbacks of the Amalfi Coast with our guide Julia, through Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, and made a friend of a Polish cafe host named Gabriella we hated to leave. Pompeii fell in the middle of it all, but that day earned a page of its own.

#Sorrento#Amalfi Coast#Positano
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