45 minutes, lots of stress, a couple of scratches to the car and several new neighborhood friends later we managed to turn the car around and get out of the ninth circle of hell an back onto the main road.
The host of our new place was waiting for us and extremely apologetic about the dirt road we needed to go down to to get to the house.. It seemed like a motorway after the "road" we'd just escaped from!!
Callum's chicken pox were really at their peak on Sunday/Monday/Tuesday so that curbed our eating out and what we could do with the kids sightseeing wise. On Tuesday we woke late and decided to visit Herculaneum and Mt Vesuvius for the day. It was a great choice!
Herculaneum (modern day Ercolano) is at the base of Mt Vesuvius and was covered by lava flows in the same eruption that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79. Unlike Pompeii, the uncovered archeological site is "only" around 4.5 hectares and very well organised and labelled. And doable with two strollers! We spent a very interesting morning there and then drove up Mt Vesuvius after lunch.
From the carpark, just under a K downhill from the crater, we lugged our two 16kg boys in Ergo carriers, all the way to the crater. We got several comments from people coming the other way about being super parents, which only just made up for all the elderly people overtaking me on the way up :-/
It was worth the walk though!! What a great view and it was interesting seeing the crater as well. As the clouds closed in, we walked back down - a much easier stroll downhill.
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