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Travel Blogs from Pompeii, Italy
Ashes to ashes
This is a top pick! ... ... just, as I said, a bit of background info. Oh, below you will also find a final observation from Italy. Just one, mind you. Pompeii Pompeii was, by all accounts, a wealthy Roman trading town that, on August 24th of the year AD79, was buried by ...
Pompeii - beautiful, extrodinary - yet terrifying
This is a top pick! ... young age. Finally in Pompeii after 45 minutes packed in a train with death heat! haha. Twas a hot day in southern Italy. Well... Pompeii was AWESOME! Not what i expected at all though. It looked alot like normal ruins (as thats how they've ...
Pompeii : A Two Thousand Year Journey
This is a top pick! ... ;And so began our long uncomfortable ride back. As I rested my head on Ed's wet shoulder I concluded that Pompeii deserved a second visit, specially considering that most of the main attractions were closed, that we didn't get audio guides, that ...
The land that time forgot
This is a top pick! We arrived at Pompeii, excited that here was another wonder that we were seeing. It was all there, the brothel with the paintings on the walls for the service that they gave, pity about the beds though, they were as hard as concrete. Could never ...
Pompeii rocks!
This is a top pick! Somewhere I'd always wanted to go - Pompeii. A chance to nosy inside other people's houses. What did a Roman urban house feel like, oppressive with no windows, or spacious because of the hole in the roof? Where did the water go when it rained? Did it make ...
Pompeii; The Forgotten City
... we found ominous and, quite appropriate. We had to switch to a little local train called the Circumvesuviana to actually get to Pompeii, and it was interesting trying to figure out which stop was the correct one. Luckily, a blue eyed Italian girl with ...
Ashes of an Ancient Empire
Pompeii, ITALY On August 24, 79 A.D. at around noon, Mt. Vesuvius erupted with the force of a modern-day nuclear detonation. The mountain's top split open and a monstrous cloud raced upward. The inhabitants of Pompeii were showered with ash, stones, ...
DAY 12 - Rome to Corfu via Pompeii
... tour that we found to be really fascinating. Not many people know, but Mount Vesuvius (the volcano that erupted and covered Pompeii), is still active and everyone who lives around that area today is on high alert! The artefacts that they uncovered were ...
the quality of buildings in Pompeii
6:45 this morning and Bridget, Justina and I were on a Mercedes tour bus which was to whisk us down the coast to Pompeii, outside of Naples. For those of you not familiar with the Pompeii story, its the town that was completely destroyed in 74ad (I ...
Pompeii
... nbsp; It's all surreal. It's like time stopped. They only have about 1/3 of the city excavated. Before the eruption, Pompeii sat right on the water. Now it's about 5 miles away. The eruption was so severe, it blew the top 1/2 ...
Ancient History
Wow... Today we had an early morning, packed up and were off. Tonight we stay in Sorrento. First, we stopped in Pompeii. For those that dont know, Mt Vesuvius erupted in 74 AD covering the city in volcanic ash and therefore preserving everything. So ...
Day 16 ' Pompeii
... deep (over 21 feet) - only 1,700 years later when a tunnel was being built was the ancient city discovered - well intact. Originally Pompeii was located about 500 meters from the sea - but after the eruption this increased to 2 kilometers. Some of the ...
Family trip to Italy
... that he viewed and carved Moses with horns. Around 3Pm we arrived in Pompei. It was eerie to see the ruins of Pompeii's destruction. The cit had been buried by ashes in 79AD by the eruption of Mount Vesuivis. In the vening we boarded ...
Pompeii
Today we went for a day trip to the city of Pompeii. It was destroyed and hidden by an explosion from Mt Vesuvious in 79AD which killed everybody left in the town an surrounding area. The began excavating it back in the 1700's and now the whole town has ...
Pompeii - Incredible
The word is used far too often, but Pompeii is truly incredible. I was totally blown away by everything - the wall paintings, architecure and sheer scale of the once-buried town. Those Romans sure knew how to live. I have taken more photos than a ...
Perusing Pompeii
A dream come true! Yes i know- "history geek"- as Rhiannon and Laura fondly call me now... but i have wanted to go to Pompeii ever since Kate (Todd) took us to the exhibition on at the Aust Museum all those years ago! I got some great pics of ...
Volcanoes and stuff
... we caught a surprisingly painless ferry back to the Italian mainland and headed for the much-hyped Pompeii. The next day we headed to the famous ruins - Italy's most popular tourist attraction. The thing that struck me most was the sheer size of ...
Pompeii/Vesuvius
... This is also the stop for Pompeii, so we walked around there a bit as well (Had the best slushy ever at the entrance to Pompeii -choice of orange or lemon... definitely go w/the orange!). We headed back to the train stop for our 1pm tour when a flood ...
When the Volcano Blows
... so far, it just wasn't deserving of our longest stay. The Bay of Naples sits like a backwards "C" on Italy's southwest coast, with Naples at the top, Pompeii and Vesuvius in the middle, and Sorrento at the bottom. Sorrento is on a small strip of land ...
Roma, Pompeii and Sorrento
... ! Especially one that could erupt anytime now! (I know all you kiwis live near them but I'm from Perth!!) The ruins of Pompeii were fascinating. It literally was like the people had just left. Most of the sculptures, frescos, and mosaics had been moved ...
Delicious Pizza, Time Machine, Dreamy Island
... ; it's like stepping back in time without the disorienting nausea associated with time machines. Ancient Pompeii had cafes and food stands just like modern day Italy. Paul tried to order something from a snackbar but it had been closed for the last two ...
_- Pompeii -_
... of the famous Roman town that was destroyed by Vesuvius, a nearby volcano. Almost two thousand years ago, the volcano erupted and covered Pompeii in volcanic ash. Because it was covered so well, and not really disturbed over the years, the site is in very ...
a trip to Pompeii
... what we were seeing was all original. We were walking on the original streets they did back then. If you don't know about Pompeii it was a city covered by volcanic ash in 79 A.D. and was completely preserved as the ash hardened around the city. When it ...
Pompeii and Vesuvius
... the summit of Vesuvius! I have wanted to visit Pompeii and Vesuvius since i was in early secondary school, and i wasn't disappointed. Pompeii was huge! i had a picture in my head of this little village, but we spent 2 hours being shown around and we only ...
Pompeii for a day.
More writting to come. I took so many photos here that i didn't want to try and fit them in with all the Rome ...
Of Craters And Camping
... but to get a ticket to the base of the final crater ascent. This proved a complete fiasco, as I jogged back and forth between Pompeii train station and Camping Zeus before finding out that I had bought a bus ticket (leaving from CZ) and not one for a ...
In the Shadow of Vesuvius
... see the rest of Pompeii in addition to the nearby town of Herculeneum which was also destoryed by the same catastrophe. Pompeii and it's residents were pummelled with ash and large rocks while Herculenium was overrun with lava. The two towns recorded ...
