Weds 3rd Pompeii and Vesvius DAY11

Pompeii Scavi (Pompeii excavations)
We went to Pompeii today - tried to 29 years ago but it was closed and we had to get back to England! Today we caught the 8.06am train (with a few others, but not many) and got to Pompeii in about 15 mins. Walked there from the station in about a minute and walked straight in. There are lots of pics which will not really need explaining except that the one of Debbie in the main forum was at about 9am and we were the only 2 people there. At 12pm you could hardly see the forum for people so all our pics are from the morning showing the buildings and not very many tourists! How cool.

Deb - early am - Pompeii forum 

Here she is all on her own! We walked and walked and saw most of the things that one should. Plaster casts of people who died in the eruption and the whole thing was really inspiring - I wish I'd listened more to my Latin teacher , at school, who was really enthusiastic about all this - AND had the same pics I have taken today but....alas.....I didn't. ....and now have to read all about it to try an reconstruct what he was on about.

Apollo's forum/temple

Here is Apollo's temple...........

....mmmh...yes,well...use your imagination.

....and an advertisement of what might be available in the brothel!

Villa del Misterio - murals

Amazing murals in the 'Villa del Misterio'.... vivid and depicting a young girl's initiation in o the priestess-hood.











WE THEN WALKED UP VESUVIUS.......with the help of a small bus but it was very, very hot.... here's the crater at the top.

Vesuvius crater - we walked up here.

And Debbie's face shows how much of an effort it was..............

'Hot' Debbie - on top of Vesuvius with Naples in the background

This is Debbie on top of Vesuvius - very how but pleased we made it up there.



At the bottom again we bought gallons of water and noticed our feet were a bit covered in lava dust! Bussed it back to the train station - back to the hotel and then out again for pizza and lots of wine. Great stuff!

That's all for today 'cos were knackered and need to sleep and rest for tomorrow in crazy Naples. got lots of plans but it will be our lasy full day here as we're heading SOUTH about 300 miles to visit Nikki in Acquapesa for a couple of days before starting our journey back towards home. We'll have done about 2,400 miles on the outward trip and it SHOULD be a shade shorter coming back but we'll see!

Vesuvius feet - afterwards, of course.