The ancient city of Herculaneum
On Friday we visited Herculaneum, an ancient Roman city destroyed (with Pompeii) in 79 AD. The site is not very big, but it is full of houses and artifacts that are still mostly standing. It is really a wonderful place to visit, and we spent hours there just walking around and looking. It is pretty awesome to see all the modern things they had 2,000 years ago.
We had fun taking these pictures, and will try to label more of them as we have a chance.
While we were there, a police helicopter was circling the neighborhood around the site, and spent a long time looking for someone. After hearing some police cars, the helicopter finally left -- we hoped they caught who they were looking for.
On the walk back to the train, we stopped at a little pizza place -- Neapolitan is different from Tuscan and Alli pronounced it the best pizza of the trip.
When we got to the train station, the strike was still going on (very few people in the station), but we found a Trenitalia office that was opened, and discovered that there was a train to Florence that afternoon. So we cancelled our hotel reservation in Naples (yea!) and rode a nice quiet train back to Florence.
