Date: 29th August 2018
Travelled: 69 kilometres from Salerno to Mount Vesuvius in Campania, Italy.
Visited: ParkErco Herculaneum โฌ11pp and the Mount Vesuvius.
Stayed: Cafe car-park Mt Vesuvios, free. No services. N40.81955, E14.41234
Budget: 88 days @ โฌ97 per day.
Our second night at the sosta in Salerno is as good as the first. We rise relatively early as another hot day is on its way. There is no shade at the sosta and the Hymer heats up quickly in the early morning sun. Pam tidies up whilst I roll the scooter back on the rack and secure it for another day on the Italian roads.
I service the Hymer, whilst Pam argues with the man at the gate about the bill and we roll out into the morning traffic. There is a Carrefour supermarket just up the road (as we cannot find a Lidl), so we top up the larder, before joining the E45 towards Napoli.
The traffic moves along well enough and we turn for Ercolano and Herculaneum.
Ercolano, Campania, Italy
So thatโs Herculaneum. Honestly although it has been several years since we visited Pompeii, we werenโt overly impressed at the time. Pompeii is a huge site and almost everything worth a look at is a copy or gated shut. With little signs saying this and that is a copy and the actual item is on display in the museum in Naples. Our neighbour Gaye recommended we visit Herculaneum. What you see is what you get. Mind you we were pissed off with coping a โฌ10 parking fee.
Itโs hot and humid, our plan now is to drive up nearby Mount Vesuvius and hopefully given the altitude a cool breeze.
San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, Campania, Italy
We pay our โฌ5 parking fee and park as directed on a side road. Then walk back up the 300 metres or so to the bus stop, then take the shuttle up the last kilometre to the start of the walk. It sounds a bit complex and it obviously was because half way up I realised I had left the iphone in the Hymer, so no photos ! Anyway from the drop off point its another 800-900 metres walk up to the crater. I donโt mind saying itโs steep.
Michael and Pam