Friday 29th December 2017

It was wet and windy in the night at Palinuro however it calmed down in the morning. Note the new snow on the hills!

Ann took a walk along the breakwater. This view is looking back towards our parking place.

We left Palinuro and travelled north passing through some spectacular scenery.

We visited the ancient Greek/ Roman site at Paestrum. This is the Greek Temple of Neptune dating from 450 BC.

Nearby is the Temple of Hera built about 350 BC.

At the far end of the site is the Temple of Athena.

The Romans colonised the site from 273 BC on wards building a large town around the Greek remains including this amphitheatre. 

Over the road is the archaeological museum which contains many amazing finds from the site. A combined ticket for the site and the museum cost 10 euros. 

Greek Cist Burials here often contained murals on their inner walls. This one of a diver is particularly famous - you can buy postcards of it in the gift shop.

This is also from "The Tomb of The Diver".

The site was occupied by people long before the Greeks arrived. The museum displays finds from the old, middle and new stone ages, as well as bronze and iron age exhibits.

From Paestum we travelled north up the coast where we bought diesel and did a supermarket shop. We are parked tonight in a huge deserted car park behind Lidl in Pontecagnano which is a suburb of Salerno.

Today we travelled 73 miles (118 kilometres) We are at N40.63667 E14.89457

Pontecagnano   Street view