Mount Vesuvius Pompei

The following morning I'd hoped we would have been able to leave the hotel early so we could get to Pompeii as early as possible. However this was not the case; the friend I'd gone with decided that we didn't need that much time in Pompeii as it didn't look that big. I chose not to argue whilst it did turn out it would have been nice for more time …

... to the ancient city of Pompei. It was very interesting. For those of you that dont know, the entire city of Pompei was completely wiped out by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. None of the people survived. It was uncovered a couple hundred years ago ...

... one of the older parts of the original city from where we could see some of the new city of Pompeii in the distance and Mount Vesuvius menacing in the background. We passed houses and shops which lined the streets: it was easy to tell the shops apart ...

Mount Vesuvius covered the city of Pompei and, years later, archaeologists discovered the ruins. Also some of the people and animals killed when the volcano erupted. Funny pic of Pete looking rather startled to find himself in a brothel ?? ...

... might have guessed, today we went to Mount Vesuvius or to be more precise, the remains of an ancient roman city under Mount Vesuvius called Pompeii. Lets start at the beginning though. We woke, showered, had free breakfast here at the hostel and headed ...

... with rain we decided to get back on the train to Pompei. Also this week we have been trying to get to the summit of Mount Vesuvius. You can drive up to a carpark and then have to get a ticket to go on past there. Unfortunately the ticket office is ...

... 130 bars/restaurants/hotels. The buildings were beautiful, covered with white ground marble stucco. But, in 79 AD nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted and Pompeii literally became history. They have excavated a large number of streets, buildings and homes but ...

... the start of the trail up Vesuvius was frustrating – Alfred found many different points stating it was part of the Mount Vesuvius National Park they just weren't the right entrance. After driving around the base on the mountain anti-clockwise we ...

... there in about 1 hour and 10 minutes. In Napoli we boarded the “Circumvesuviana" train which travels around Mount Vesuvius (hence the name Circumvesuviana), finally stopping in Pompeii near the entrance of the excavation site about 30 minutes ...

... home - and neither did mine...we've existed 2000 beyond pompei and still we don't all live with the amenities they did mount Vesuvius isn't dead yet...they predict that next time it will blow sideways and most of the land surrounding it will be ...

The ruins of Pompeii were like walking into another time. The volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius preserved everything so well you could picture what a day in the life of a Pompeian might be like. Many people died from the eruption and archaeologists ...