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About 2 weeks ago, a group of us flew from Atlanta to Rome, Italy.\u00a0 We left on Wednesday, arrived on Thursday, and rode 2 trains to Sorrento, Italy where we stayed for 3 nights.\u00a0 Day 1<\/a> is the trip and arrival in Sorrento.\u00a0 For day 2<\/a>, we hopped on a ferry to the island of Capri, where we took a smaller boat to the blue grotto.\u00a0 It was very cool.\u00a0 The dark cave and the glowing blue water made capturing photographs difficult.\u00a0 Upon our return to port, we rode the funicular up the mountain, enjoyed what Capri had to offer, and then returned to Sorrento on the ferry.\u00a0 Traveling to Pompeii on day 3 by train, we strolled through the city while listening to a Rick Steves audio tour.\u00a0 I am in the process of creating a web gallery for the remaining days.\u00a0 Stay tuned for further developments …<\/p>\n Day 3<\/a> lead us to Pompeii.\u00a0 We saw a market area with depictions of what vendors would be selling there,\u00a0 castings of people caught in the ash, cafe areas, a brothel with more depictions of services available, and a bakery.\u00a0 Back in Sorrento as we walked through the streets with vendors we saw a couple of them selling tomatoes (without the smooth outsides) and very large lemons that are used to make limoncello (a liqueur).\u00a0 We also wound up having a lemon cake dessert with frosting almost daily.\u00a0 It became affectionately known as a ‘lemon boob’.<\/p>\n Our return to Rome on day 4<\/a> was by ferry instead of by train.\u00a0 After checking in at the hotel, we walked around to see some of the sites.\u00a0 One of them was Trevi Fountain, where I captured a few photographs, with my Olympus point and shoot camera, for a panorama<\/a> .\u00a0 Another was the Spanish Steps, which also had a fountain.\u00a0 All of the walking left us parched so we stopped for refreshment, which is where I saw an older MINI. We went to an area that had restaurants around a plaza and in the plaza were vendors with items for sale, like paintings.\u00a0 As night approached our travels lead us to the Pantheon, where we spent a little while before retiring for the night.<\/p>\n I added two panoramas from Pompeii that were captured with my DSLR.\u00a0 The first one<\/a> is near the center meeting area and shows Vesuvius in the background.\u00a0 The second one<\/a> is a view from just outside of the area that you have to pay to enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About 2 weeks ago, a group of us flew from Atlanta to Rome, Italy.\u00a0 We left on Wednesday, arrived on Thursday, and rode 2 trains to Sorrento, Italy where we stayed for 3 nights.\u00a0 Day 1 is the trip and arrival in Sorrento.\u00a0 For day<\/p>\n