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  • View of Sorrento in the foreground.
  • Senic turnout near Sorrento
  • Feeling happy and tired on the Amalfi coast.
  • Above Sorrento. It's true, wearing a genuine Rick Steves, autograph-model, neck hanger document pouch adds 10 pounds.
  • Positano, Italy
  • Positano
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • The gladiator barracks and the gladiator playground
  • Strolling among the gladiator barracks.
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Thought to be a serving counter of some type of food vendor.
  • Another food vendor's shop
  • A baker's oven in the interior.
  • Pompeii street
  • Views of Pompeii
  • The volcanic "ash" from Mt. Vesuvius that buried the city after pyroclastic flow of searing gas killed the inhabitants of Pompeii. Finer bits have likely been washed away by rain.
  • Not difficult to envision toga-clad Pomeiians (Pompeiiites?) hustling along this street.
  • IMG 1807
  • The Roman baths.
  • Roman Baths at Pompeii
  • Roman Baths at Pompeii
  • Roman Baths at Pompeii
  • Roman Baths at Pompeii
  • one of the plaster casts taken of a victim of the Vesuvius eruption.
  • Roman Baths at Pompeii
  • Roman Baths at Pompeii
  • Roman Baths at Pompeii
  • An ancient fountain that is still in use.
  • The port at Naples with Mt. Vesuvius on the right
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii. I was interested in how these columns were constructed.
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii
  • Views of Pompeii. These photos are better viewed from the album because this photos loaded backwards.
  • Mt. Vesuvius from the harbor at Naples. Before the catalysmic eruption that buried Pompeii, the mountain was nearly twice it's current height.
  • Terraced homes above Positano, Italy. A lovely town on the Amalfi coast, reportedly popular with jet setters. It had many upscale shops with gorgeous goods way out of of our range but fun to look at.
  • Outer wall at Pompeii.
  • Pompeii city wall
  • Pompeii Auditorium
  • Hercules decoration at one of the auditoriums (auditoria?)
  • Street of retail shops and apartments.