Day 3 and 4

I'm trying to get my entire trip chronicled before we leave for Athens tomorrow, for fear that my brain is full, not to mention the camera disc. Meanwhile we found out that our son-in-law, Steven, is stranded in Germany. He is awaiting his passport with visa for his work assignment in Nigeria, I think. They ran into no delivery due to Easter weekend, so I'm looking at him joining us in Athens.
So...onward south from Rome. First stop was Pompeii and a wonderful Sicilian guide who explained the relics, the buildings and the streets to us. Fascinating stuff, and something Jeff is very interested in visiting before our final return to the states. We spent 2 nights in Sorrento, our base for our drive on the Amalfi coast line. These days and Rome were the main reason this tour with the church was something I very much wanted to do. Who knew what a reward it would be to spend 9 days with these wonderful people. In ways the coast reminded me of the bits of California coast we saw around San Francisco especially the sun playing hide and seek. Our tour bus driver was amazing, and very knowledgeable of the road. Buses are only allowed to go 1 way, for obvious reasons, and where we were to turn off after the town of Amalfi to take the 'high' road, the link was closed for construction, so we got double the drive all the way to the outskirts of Salerno! I thing the second 1/2 of that drive was more treacherous than the first.
This region of Italy, Campania, is noted for Limoncello, and pottery. I made sure to sample the first and purchase the second.