After our morning in the Vatican, we spent the rest of the day in the car headed down the coast to Naples. We found a nice campsite just outside the city in a little town called Pozzuoli and decided to spend two nights.
The drive out to Pompeii was hectic, the drivers around Naples are far worse than Rome and Nancy (the GPS) seemed intent on taking us the wrong way down a one way street. But we got there in the end, and we got to spend our day exploring the ruins left by Mt Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 AD.
It’s an incredible place to visit and wander through. So much of the town was preserved after the eruption and has now been recovered. We were a little disappointed when we realised how much had been altered and restored, but at the same time it allowed us to see how the town looked back then, as well as now after the eruption and so many years.
The plaster casts of the bodies that had been preserved, were incredible. The detail that you can see is unbelievable. You can see their clothes, shoes and even the expressions on their faces.
It wasn’t quite how we imagined it would be, and it was definitely a lot bigger than we were expecting, but it was amazing to visit yet another place we had both dreamed of seeing.
Our next day took us down to the town of Palmi, where we spent only one night, before heading down to Sicily the next day.
It’s an incredible place to visit and wander through. So much of the town was preserved after the eruption and has now been recovered. We were a little disappointed when we realised how much had been altered and restored, but at the same time it allowed us to see how the town looked back then, as well as now after the eruption and so many years.
The plaster casts of the bodies that had been preserved, were incredible. The detail that you can see is unbelievable. You can see their clothes, shoes and even the expressions on their faces.
It wasn’t quite how we imagined it would be, and it was definitely a lot bigger than we were expecting, but it was amazing to visit yet another place we had both dreamed of seeing.
Our next day took us down to the town of Palmi, where we spent only one night, before heading down to Sicily the next day.
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