Photo version of my Sorrento Trip Report.

Looks good allan!! I don’t see any captions though. Wait, never mind. I see them when I click on the photos.

Allan, these are wonderful! I'm really enjoying scrolling through them - it makes me want to head there right now!

Thank you, Allan; what wonderful memories.

I'm with you on valuing and appreciating the items of everyday life in museums, more than the frescoes, jewelry, and "more valuable" artifacts. I remember being so touched, many years ago, visiting a Native American museum at (I think) Grand Teton National park. What caught my eye - and my heart - was the display of toys.

Toys! You can't get more personal but yet mundane, than the sight of what kids were playing with in different times and different cultures. And the toys were not that different from what our kids play with - excepting high tech stuff, of course - dolls, tiny models of tools and weapons, tiny versions of household items, hunting and farming implements. Tiny beaded moccasins reminded me of the samplers girls used to make in colonial days: something to practice skills that will be needed later in life.

Far more telling than fancy, specialty use, items, don't you think?

I really appreciated all the captions!

Allan, great pix, and so jealous of the weather you had, just a few weeks before our May trip. Most of my AC pix consist of grey skies and grey water. Whatever... Your trip report is really a masterpiece.
Safe travels!

Thank you so much for your pictures and related trip report. Very much appreciated for someone that has never been there before.

I'm with you on valuing and appreciating the items of everyday life in
museums, more than the frescoes, jewelry, and "more valuable"
artifacts.

Jane, one exception I had was a fresco at the museum that was a portrait of a husband and wife. The signage underneath indicated that it was believed to be the only "intellectual" portrait of its kind discovered in the Vesuvian cities. When I researched it further I discovered it was odd that the woman was given equal standing with her husband in the portrait and they were holding items to display their literacy. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-21897925

Love your photos! Thank you for sharing them.

Allan, yes, I have seen that fresco, and also appreciate it.

I do love frescoes; for some reason they seem more intimate? personal? than other artworks. I cannot back that statement up with objective reasoning, but somehow the frescoes speak differently to me.

A good friend's sister just moved up here from Albuquerque, and has joined our informal coffee group. As it happens, she is a professional artist; I must ask her about this totally subjective reaction, to see if there is a rational basis for it.

I do love frescoes; for some reason they seem more intimate? personal? than other artworks. I cannot back that statement up with objective reasoning, but somehow the frescoes speak differently to me.

Jane, I feel the same way about frescoes and I wonder if it's because they are painted on stationary walls, which gives them a great deal of permanence. Because canvas paintings and other objects d'art are more portable, they possibly don't have that same sense of history that frescoes give us.

Mardee, interesting point. The more I think about it, the more I like it. Frescoes in situ are more evocative than those which have been removed and displayed elsewhere, for example.

Possibly that same theory that we read on here from time to time about the reproduction of the cave drawings at Lascaux IV vs. seeing the real cave paintings elsewhere.

so jealous of the weather you had, just a few weeks before our May
trip.

Pat, we really lucked out. We had a good friend that was there a week ahead of us and it rained everyday. She and her friend even got caught in a storm while kayaking and the tour leader had to have them take cover in a small cove near Sorrento to wait it out after a wave flipped one of the kayaks.

Great photos.

The Circumvesuviana and Sorrento station look just like I remember them.......... from 2010

I see you had your Bluejays hat (so you wouldn't be mistaken for ' an American") ?

thanks for sharing Allan! This is on my "someday" list, now wondering if I should move it up a bit higher.

Great photos Allan, thank you for sharing!

I see you had your Bluejays hat (so you wouldn't be mistaken for ' an
American") ?

No, that's never been a concern of mine, I usually travel with 3 ball caps to match whatever clothes I'm bringing along (wife's orders, even hats must be a reasonable match; as she likes to say "we're not hobos"). When we were there the vast majority of visitors were from Europe-primarily England, so I doubt they would recognize the Jays logo anyway.