After Rome it was further south to Naples and Pompei.. Pompei is amazing and it would be easy to spend the whole day there. We only had a couple of hours, but it was well worth visiting. While a very large part of the site has been uncovered, the archeologists will be working for years to uncover the rest of it.
After Pompei we headed over to the Adriatic coast where we spent 2 days in Pescara and another 2 days 30km south of Venice in a lovely old town called Chiogga. Here we spent time at the beach, catching up with washing, walking around the old towns and just relaxing.