Earlier in the week Deanna and I signed up to be escorts on the excursions. The crew can go on the excursions for free if they’re picked, but you have to keep track of the people and fill out a report. When you sign up you get three choices. Deanna and I signed up for the same first and second choices thinking we could go together. So, today…early…Deanna went to Capri and I went to Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius. At least now we know they’ll probably never send TWO people on the same excursion. There was one other person on the same excursion as me, but she was on a different bus and in charge of that group. I saw her maybe 3 or 4 times throughout the day.
The good news is that I got to climb to the top of Mt. Vesuvius (from the parking lot)! Still, it is about 550 meters to get there. I was supposed to stay at the back of the group and that was definitely easy to do on the climb up. The trail let us see into the crater at the top. At one point I thought I saw some of the last people, but there was about 100 meters of trail left to the end. I went to the end to see if anyone from our group was there and to herd them…there wasn’t. I started power hiking back and finally found the end of our group. As you start the climb there are two guys handing out walking sticks. When you return the stick they ask for a tip. There were a lot of people there and if they get 1euro a stick they’re wealthy.
From there we went to Pompeii. I was glad I got to see it again, but unfortunately the public bath part was closed. That was one of my favorite parts from last time because the roof wasn’t wooden so it didn’t collapse or burn in the ash.
Now I’m back, my feet are tired, and I’m watching German TV...that home fixer show...they just play a snippet of the Inspector Gadget theme song.
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