Toledo

So the Toledo station on the Naples Metro is a bit of a favourite for Instagram and stuff apparently and it's easy to see why - blue, purple, gold that positively shimmers. 

It's our local stop too so we've been there on more than one occasion and every time it just looks so great. We got on there this very morning to get up to the main Garibaldi station to catch the local Circumvesuviana train to Ercalano AKA Herculaneum. Herculaneum was buried in AD79 in the same Vesuvius eruption that also destroyed Pompeii. Except it got buried deeper under the lava, up to 30m deeper so the whole archaeological site is down at the bottom of the hill from the town that now stands there and apparently is still being excavated even now, and maybe it's better preserved than Pompeii from what I gathered. Anyways, we we were there exploring for a good few hours in the hot sun and by the time we got the train back to Naples it was definitely time for an aperitivo  in the Spanish Quarter before going for typically great pizza and then heading home tired but happy (again).

As an aside I was looking up some Vesuvius stuff on the internet the other night and I discovered that it is now quite overdue for another eruption (the last one being in 1944) and that if such an eruption is a significant one it could destroy the whole of the Naples area (population three million) in two and a half minutes). We fly home on Sunday night so we *should* be okay.

Last thing - the Napoli match has been moved from tomorrow afternoon to Sunday afternoon so the earliest they can possibly win the title now is around 4pm on Sunday. It means we can have tomorrow free of all football considerations, but it all might be kicking off massively around the time we're trying to head out to the airport. One day at a time... 

Roman