Amalfi Coast

In Amalfi now (just past Naples) and have to say this place is so beautiful. It has a great view of the mountains (including Vesuvious) and meditteranean (i am probably spelling all of these wrong). We also went to pompeii today - it was very different from what I had imagined or remembered from grade school film strips. I thought it was going to have a ton of preserved human life and more ash covered areas. Instead it has been very much excavated with most of the main items in museums. There were a few bodies that were enclosed in glass that were preserved in a huddled up position - i thought it was very interesting and scary. The other thing that was surprising was the fact that pompeii is so big - the area that was excavated was huge. Also Vesuvious is pretty far away - so the volcano erruption must have been very big and fast to get to this area. Onto venice tomorrow!