Woke up and had another good breakfast in our room at Pensione Linda. Then packed up all our belongings and walked down the hill to Sorrento train station.
Today was much nicer weather, and it would have been great to stay longer and explore more of the Amalfi coast and look around Pompeii some more. But we had to get back to Rome as we pick up our car tomorrow morning.
Booked a cheaper 2nd class unreserved ticket from Naples, and were ripped off by a porter there (not a nice city), then had a good 2 hour ride back to Rome. It was a good opportunity to update the travel diaries with all the exciting things we had seen over the past few days:
The next bit was more of a challenge - getting to Ostia, and even Tourist Information at Termini wasn't much help. We eventually took the Metro and changed for another train to Ostia Centro. Shame in hindsight that we didn't collect the car earlier - it would have saved us a lot of stuffing around on trains - but we were worried about driving our new car through Naples (and probably rightly so!), and a few days of train travel around Europe was to be part of the experience.
When we arrived late in Lido Di Ostia, we found accommodation at the Hotel Belvedere. At first appearances it looked a bit upmarket, but we needed two rooms and the plumbing in one of the bathrooms was a bit pongy, but we were getting used to that by now. The other room though had magnificent views of the beachfront:
So we took a walk around the seaside village, grabbed a bite to eat, and then crashed after an exhausting and emotional day.
Sadly with all the mucking around trying to get here on trains, we did not have enough time to explore the ruins at Ostia Antica. Another thing for next time!
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