Interludium; Updatum

We are, since Monday, back in Pompei, at our home, #11, Camping Spartacus. Tuesday we spent 7 hours in the Pompei archaeological site (500 pix). Wednesday, it rained all day. Thursday we spent all day in Capri, via train to Sorrento and ferry, seeing the Blue Grotto (sort of) and Tiberias' Villa (300 pix). Friday we were all day in Naples again, mostly at the Archaeological Museum (400 pix). Today, Saturday, we were on the Circumvesuviana again (the train that runs between Naples and Sorrento, Pompei in the middle), spending the afternoon at Herculaneum (300 pix). Tomorrow in Pompei again we see, by reservation, the Villa of the Mysteries, the House of the Prince of Naples, the Suburban Baths, and others, including House of the Tragic Poet, Garden of the Fugitives, and more. Another several hundred pix. It may take some some time to process, edit, and post all this. Or just a tiny bit of it. Perhaps I should explain that our interest in the region, its history and archaeology and so on, is longstanding (we have six years of high school Latin between us), and has been augmented considerably by watching Miami U professor Stephen Tuck's lectures on everyday life in Pompei, from the Teaching Company. Superb stuff. We have never been so well prepared for a site or complex of sites. And the classical world is on display at Pompei like nowhere else.

"That's more than 3 gigs of pix!"