Today I was still cranky and tired from whatever was going on with my body. However, I wanted to do the Pompeii thing as my favorite visitor to Italy, rain, is supposed to grace us again on Friday with its presence. A little foggy I set out with my sights on Pompeii. I found on my way out a huge group of people from the hostel doing the same thing. As I felt like a little alone time I figured I should just join up and get out of my funk with the group.
It was the best decision. We navigated our way there and around the site realizing that it was huge an we had to pick and choose which places we wanted to see. In case you didn't know...Pompeii is a partially covered Roman town outside of Naples. It was buried in ash during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. The area was buried under 4 to 6 meters of ash and sediment. It was accidentally discovered around 1592 and has be excavated to bring to life incredible detail and insight into civilization during the height of the Roman Empire.
While walking around we saw many, many homes. A few temples and some fast food stands. Yes, they had fast food back then.
Casting of the imprint left by someone covered during the eruption
fastfood restaurant
One more thing they had in the land of Pompeii was a brothel with picture indicating which services were available. oh pompeii.
We also trekked out to the area where gladiators would fight animals and human competitors. We ended the day walking through the forum as the first walk through was amongst 10930 billion tourists and as we stayed till the bitter end we were a few or the last people in the area.
forum
That night at the hostel there was an art party of sorts. Cool, yes! Awkward, yes! It was weird to feel out of place at this cozy hostel. There were lots of Italians and little room at the bar. However, we stood our ground and the group of us chatted and drank wine for the rest of the evening.
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