Pompeii

A short one for today. Ellie, Belinda and I decided to go to the island of Capri. We met up with some other girls from the hostel on the train, so that was the travel pack for the day. Unfortunately, when we got to Sorrento, Capri looked like this:


Because our train tickets were good for an hour, we got back on and headed the other direction to Pompeii. We had heard some bad things about it (boring mainly), but it turned out to be very impressive. It was raining lightly the whole day, but it wasn't anything my fancy one-Euro poncho couldn't handle.


There were even casts made of bodies of the victims that died in the volcanic eruption in the year 79. The bodies were preserved by the volcanic ash, and some man came along and covered the molds with plaster. To imagine that these are the positions in which people died while boiling lava or tumbling rocks fell on top of them is crazy.

This is me in the Amphitheatre. It was cool. I can't believe men used to kill each other for entertainment. (One could argue the same occurs in our days).


Alright, then. 'Til next time,