Trains and Buses ON STRIKE!!!!!

Okay, so today, July 7, 2008, is the day that ALL of Italy's trains and busses went on strike! So we were freaking out today. Basically we were told that there was NO way we could get to Rome today, only tomorrow. I felt like crying this morning as we found this out. We had a hotel reservation in Rome tonight, and we were going to visit Pompeii. I thought that, not only were we not going to make it to Rome tonight, we also would have to skip out on Pompeii. This was a major bummer! On top of this information, no one seemed to be able to really help us at first.

Anyway, as with everything, it ended up working out okay. The trains started running again just in the middle of the day only for about 4 hours. We still needed to cancel the Rome hotel since we could not make it to both Pompeii and Rome in that time. First, I found out that I left the phone number at home! oops! the tourist office was helpful and found the number, then I called and they didnt speak english! So the peopel in the TI also were very very helpful and called for me to take care of it. Then we found another cheaper hotel here in Sorrento and went to Pompeii for the afternoon. We barely caught the train back to Sorrento. It was the last train coming back today! whew!! Now we have rested from the walking we did in Pompeii and we are rested and almost ready for dinner!

What a story!