Amy Welborn in Herculaneum and Oplontis, 2023
Always on my mind when I consider the past, but even more so when visiting places like Herculaneum and Oplontis.
Why not Pompeii? We went in 2012, and granted, that was a while ago – there’s just a lot more on this trip I wanted to see that taking at least half a day at Pompeii would make difficult.
Briefly: Took the train from the Naples central station – the Circumvesuvian that goes all the way to Sorrento. It’s often very crowded and a prime pickpocketing location, but this was in the morning in the middle of the week in February, so it wasn’t a problem.
The Herculaneum (Ercolano) ruins are just a short walk from the train station, after maybe a 25-minute ride
