Pompeii and Almalfi Coast details

The city of Pompei is very small with two train station- the national line and the regional line. We took a train from Rome to Naples and then to Pompei one morning after checking out and buying some stuff in Rome. The train ticket lady was the most unhelpful person ever, she had the trains to Naples and costs memorized but would only tell us stuff on a specific one we said. So we had to look up others on the table and she would rattle off the costs with no problem. So she knew where and when we wanted to go, but told us to go to information on the other side of the station (we didnt) when there was a train 2 minutes after the one we initially had in mind. It was ridiculous.The hostel in Pompei was probably the cheapest we have stayed in- the Casa de Pelligrino. My room had 8 beds and about 5 females. Ethans room was just him in a room for 8. We are definitely traveling before the main tourist crowds. The restaurants in Pompeii like to have 'tourista' menus which i found weird because tourists dont want tourist food. They would be a meal with sides (since they are all separate) and desert for a set price. We didn't eat in one of those.
The Pompei ruins are huge and about 70% excavated. You can walk down streets that were thriving in 70 AD and see the old shops, bakeries, and homes. The homes of the traders and others with money were beautiful. You need to get an audioguide to understand what you are looking at and they only sell them at one end of the ruins- and we came in the other side since it was close to the hostel so we had to hike across to get one. The ruins are amazing. There was a theatre that seats 300, 000 people which is more than any in existance i believe.Almalfi Coast:Not too much to see there, just town and beautiful places to take photos of. I just wanted to go there for the view. You take a train to Sorrento and then a bus on the SITA line along tiny twisty roads with far drops to the water for an hour just to cover 20 km. The bus ride was making people sick. We got off the bus in Positano (the typical picture of the Almalfi Coast you see) and took some photos. I bought some tiny little peaches (we used to be able to get them at the fruit farm Mag Maggies I think). I miss eating fruits and veggies. Eating out all the time is something I will not miss. There was another ride about the same length to get to Almafi where we ate lunch and sat on the beach. It was a nice calm day.
Then we took a boat to Salerno, where we took a local bus for 2 hours back to Pompei. It was impossible to know when to get off the bus so we started asking the locals. In broken English we got of and basically were on the street or our hostel. A man on the bus found it really amusing that I was asian (which he indicated with squinty eyes) and spoke English.Italians are rude and pushy it seems. Especially the older ones. When boarding the boats the old Italians were pushing like a mob when we all knew the boat was not going to leave themThere havent been any waits at all for us. For example Ethan got in the Vatican in 15 min (just security) on the day the Pope returned and two years ago I spent an hour to get in in June.