Pompei, Italy Travel Blogs

Pompeii
Nov 12, 2007 (15 photos)

Pompeii is an ancient city that was destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.  It wasn't until 18th century when the city was rediscovered and now provides key insights to roman civilization.  Day trip to Pompeii is ideal from Naples and you can view ...

Pompei
Jun 10, 2003 (9 photos)

After leaving Rome we drove south to our next destination: Capo Vaticano and the beautiful azure blue waters of the Calabria region.  But not so fast, how could we possibly not stop at Pompeii?  Right, we couldn't, so we stopped and let ...

Italy's finest....
Jan 25, 2006 (10 photos)

... marinara and won...just. The photographic evidence is on a disc back home; will manage to get it up sometime. POMPEI, for a day Despite a very quirky rule which entitled people from the "south of australia", not including melbourne, to a discount, ...

Pompeii
Sep 9, 2008

Pompeii was very interesting. We walked through the ruined city in the sweltering heat for hours, with little shade. Our tour guide showed us one of the first "fast food shops", shops with little benches with holes in them to store the food. There were ...

Pompeii in the rain
Oct 21, 2007 (41 photos)

Today, we left a little earlier than usual since we needed to beat the traffic coming into town for the Pope. We had a tour guide at Pompeii. It was a fascinating tour, even though it was raining outside. After a long tour, we went to ...

Day Trip to Pompei
Nov 5, 2005 (5 photos)

It took us hours and hours to walk around the vast ruins at Pompei.

We are back!
Sep 30, 2006 (5 photos)

Hello everyone, WE ARE BACK! After a LONG flight, we landed in Melbourne on the 19th of September. Life has gone back to how it was before but the memories of our amazing holiday will be with us forever! Apologies for not having done any entries in the ...

ohhh vesuvious how you cover thee
Sep 5, 2009

wow awesome city to visit...went there yesterday with my friend bridget...it is really soo interesting but a lot to land to cover to expect to be there awhilllle...we were there for over 5 hours in the way heat and we definitely didnt see it all...but ...

Pompei
Nov 2, 2007 (2 photos)

... me later :) From there I finally managed to get in contact with Neill and we decided to meet in Southern Italy at Pompei. While I'm waiting for Neill I had my genuine Italian haircut. I decided to be brave and let him do whatever he ...

Volcano Ruins
Aug 13, 2009

We left Rome very early in order to catch a train to Pompei, a small town outside of Naples Italy. Pompei and a town nearby, known as Herculaneum, were both destroyed in 79 AD by a volcano. Pompei was buried under an estimated 20 metres of ash. In the last ...

Volcanic Ruins of Pompei
Jul 2, 2009 (36 photos)

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 ?? :-)

il senato
Jul 21, 2009

... ceiling, probably the original wooden furniture, grand columns, and a gorgeous painted ceiling.  That is one thing I love about Italy, the painted ceilings.  Apparently the senate's agenda for today was the budget, but there was a motion to change the agenda ...

A travel day
Jul 10, 2009 (2 photos)

... our next station which was Chuisi. We changed trains again and onto Naples. Once again, changed trains and eventually arrived in Pompei. The lady at the motel recommended a lovely little restaurant so we had a nice meal and a fairly early night ready for ...

The ghetto of Napoli and beautiful Pompei
Jan 28, 2007 (10 photos)

... sorry I went on a little tangent. For a little background information for the kids who rode the short bus, Pompeii is a city in Italy which was covered and preserved in ash when Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. Even though I had no idea what most of the ...

Pompei #2
Nov 3, 2007 (10 photos)

... a good four hours or so exploring the ruins and I think that I took more photos than anywhere else in Italy! We are staying at Pompei (hotel!) again tonight and hopefully being Saturday night there will be a bit of nightlife again. Tomorrow we are ...

Ruined by Pompei
Mar 17, 2002 (29 photos)

... I don't know if it is an offer he usually makes, though in 99 he also made the same offer. Riding in a car in Italy is always an experience and this was no less of one. The gentleman driving was whizzing through the streets. When a parked cars door ...

Trip to Southern Italy!
May 27, 2006

... swampy lands of Pasteum so thats where the smoked Bufala originated. We got back on the bus and traveled further south to Pompei...the home of Mt. Vesuvius (europes only active volcano). Pompei is one of the best preserved Roman towns, still looking much ...

Simply Stunning
Jun 8, 2009

We took a 'quick" trip down to Pompeii and what an amazing day it was. We woke early and busted our hineys to get to the Metro to the main terminal train station. We caught a very nice train (super fast kind of thing) to Naples...only took an 1.5 hours to ...

The start of Week Two
Jul 6, 2009

The Monday morning started off great. I went for a great run and Laura and I got lost kinda but it was fun. I then got ready for the day and went to class. before we went on our tours for art history, our teacher told us our grade and explained what we ...

Pompei - a day not going completely to plan
Nov 24, 2007 (9 photos)

... the begininng of our trip, today we were in t-shirts and light tops. The local guide met us and drove with us to Pompei. Fascinating stuff and with a little imagination it was easy to visiualise the city as it was before the eruption, and the daily life of ...

Staying at the 'Ruins' Motel
Mar 12, 2008 (19 photos)

... the opposite side of that wall for a good place to dump and burn their garbage. Yesterday we asked directions to Pompei in Torre Annunziata from the local police and they took on the task of escorting us out of town for 4kms.  It ...

Pompei, Vesuvius and Naples
Jan 13, 2008 (76 photos)

... views of the bay of Naples. Today it was snowing up there so we couldn't see anything! We have really enjoyed Pompei itself though. It's quite fascinating wandering around the excavations and so educational for the kids. We spent a whole day wandering ...

A sleepy Saturday
May 24, 2008 (13 photos)

A sleepy Saturday morning.   We had fireworks at 7:00 again this morning.  So I am up and sleep-typing after breakfast.  It is definitely Saturday.  Three cups of coffee have just bounced off me with little effect.  It is cool, ...

Pompeii
Aug 15, 2007 (7 photos)

As a day trip from Rome we managed to fit Pompeii. This little town on the southern coast suffered the wrath of Mt.Vesuvius. Frozen in time since 79AD it gives you a chance to walk through an ancient city of the Roman empire from 2000 years ago. some ...

smelly mc smellerson
Jun 18, 2008

... to just about everywhere but platform 3 and disappeared when it was really important. We found out way none the less and went to pompei. It was pretty coool there. HOT, but neat none the less. The whole town was distroyed from the volcanoe, and it was ...

Campania Update
May 30, 2007 (21 photos)

May 30-Castellammare   Just a quick update/outline of entry to come.  The last couple of days have been very full and my head is bursting with wonderful information.  I am also dropping off to sleep at any moment.  We have an 8:30 ...

Walking around Pompei
Jul 11, 2009 (11 photos)

... plus hundreds of homes. I've uploaded photos but it was very hard to capture the immensity of the site. After walking through Pompei we collected our packs on headed for Rome. We bought first class tickets for our last long train trip but when we ...

Week 1 Exams - Pompeii
May 23, 2008 (24 photos)

Friday, 23 May 2008 - VIIAH, Castellammare di Stabia AM: 09:00 - Study / Exam Preparation, 10:30 - HIST/GEOG Week 1 Exams PM: 14:30 - Tour of Pompeii - HIST: Ancient Roman Provincial World / GEOG: Geographic perspectives on the AD79 eruption of Mt. ...

Pompeii
Nov 29, 2009

Pompeii photos here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=166326&l=08c6349667&id=613699523 Sunday caught the train out to Pompei which was ginormous! I think we only saw about half of the ruins, but saw some really amzing stuff. Pity we couldn't ...

Castle and ruins - Caserta and Pompei
Sep 4, 2008 (36 photos)

After seeing Gargano it was now time to see one of the places that I remember always hearing and learning about at school - Seeing Pompeii. I can tell you it was nothing like I expected. For some reason I had it in my mind that it would be like an ...