昨日も書いたように30数年前に来た時にポンペイに行きそびれていたので、今回は有料のポンペイとピッツァというエクスカーションに参加しました。今回も数枚の写真だけアップして、家に戻ってからゆっくりと後の写真をアップします。
As I wrote yesterday, we didn’t have time to go to Pompeii when we were here 30-some years ago so we joined a paid excursion “Pompeii & Pizza’. It takes too much time to upload all the photos so just some today and I’ll blog about Pompeii properly when we get home.
9時集合でしたがポンペイでは一度に多くのパスが入れないようで船の中で順番待ちをしたので、出発したのは9時半でした。生憎昨日は日曜日でしかも良いお天気だったので（今年初めて夏のようなお天気になったとおっしゃっていました）で、それでなくても交通渋滞が酷いナポリからポンペイにかけての道はさらに混んでいましたし、ポンペイの遺跡の中も凄い人でした。わたしたちのバスの乗客は2つのグループ（それずれ15人くらいずつだったと思います）に分かれて、わたしたちのグループは別のガイドさんについて行きましたが、その方は手に何も持っておられなかったので迷子にならないか不安でした。お話はワイヤレスのヘッドセットで問題なく聞こえましたが、どこに行かれたのかは見えず、前の人についていくしかない感じ。それでも、気をつけて度々止まってくださっていたので迷子にならずに済みました。ガイドの内容はとても面白く勉強になりました。若い頃はガイドさんについてというのが嫌でツアーに参加したこともなかったのですが、やはりガイドさんからお話を聞く方が勉強になりますし興味も湧きます。
We were supposed to meet for the tour at 9:00am and we first met in the ship’s theatre where they then called the various groups one by one to disembark via the gangway – I guess, because there isn’t enough space for many buses to sit and wait inside the port in Naples. So by the time we left the port it was past 9:30. Unfortunately, it was a Sunday yesterday and was such beautiful weather, they said it was the first day with such warm weather (it was only about 20C, but very sunny so hot in the sun) so the road between Naples and Pompeii was very congested, even more so than usual. Once we got to Pompeii the passengers on our bus were divided into 2 groups and our group was taken by another guide, who was a great guide, great at telling you stories in an interesting way. Unfortunately, unlike our previous guides, he didn’t have anything tall in his hand to hold up to show where he was, and because it was so crowded, we were always a little worried about loosing him. He was also quite short, which didn’t help, so we lost him often and all we could do was to follow others in our group, hoping they were following him. He was very good and stopped often and made sure we were following, but it would have helped if he had something visible in his hand. His talk was always very interesting and I felt it is valuable to have a guide in a place like that. When we were younger, we disliked being on a group tour but you do understand a lot more and become more interested in the place when you hear a guide’s explanation.
ポンペイに到着して中に入ったのが10時50分、ツアーが終わってからもう1つのグリープを待ってトイレ休憩などあり、バスに乗ったのが1時ごろ。ツアーは2時間くらいでしたがと説明を聞きながらゆっくり歩いてそれほど距離は歩かなかったので歩数は伸びず、昨日歩いたのは6500歩ちょっと。前日は、7600歩。
We got inside the site around 10:50 and it was close to 13:00 when we got back on the bus, so the tour inside was about 2 hours or so, but moved slowly so we didn’t walk that much. At the end of the day, I walked a little more than 6,500 steps, on the day before yesterday it was 7,600 steps.