2 days exploring Pompei and local beaches
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Mon 22 Jun 2009 17:06
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Blog written Clive and Jack
Wedneday 17th June
Susan was still in England with Jack so Clive,
Harry, Williams and Vicks visited Pompei. We did not really know what we were
looking at as we chose not to get a guide (wrong decision!) but we were alln
struck by how amasing and huge this place is. What is particularly
impressive is the quality of the remains - we later found out that this was die
to the fact that the City was buried in ash for 1700 years until escavations
started in C18.
We walked around for 1.5 hours in the midday heat.
We tried to find the "bodies" but never did. We later discovered we were 30
metres from them but the signs did not tell us. William did very well and was
fine once he had a huge Italian ice cream.
We (Clive, Susan, Jack, Harry and William) decided
to go back the next day and we employed an Italian guide for 1 hour - Rafael.
Brief history of Pompei
1700 years ago Vesuvius(a volcano) erupted on
Pompei :couvering it in ash.All the poor people died ,howerver the rich were not
as they evacuated when there was a earthquake 16 years before.Every single
building was preserved under the ash untill the arcaeologists escavated
the magnificent ruins.Now tourists are able to explore most of the
town,although, not all of Pompei has been escavated yet-they are doing it very
slowly as not to damage anything.
We explored the town -this time with a guide.We
found out lots of things that we didn`t know before:the grooves in the pavement
were because of the charriots;some of the town hadn`t been excivated; and that
the rich peole and tombs where they were buried but the poor people only had
stones.This time we found our guide showed us the "bodies".they poured
special plaster into places were the bodies had beed and let them set. The
captured the he posiiton they died in and also the agony onn their faces!
 Our first trip. This was taken in the Forum of the
City with Vesuvius in the background (the two peaks were joined to a much higher
peak before the eruption)
 In one of the "Tavernas" of Roman times - this was
a posher one due to the marble counter top. The food and wine would have
been in the pots.
 William - "I am OK now I have my ice
cream"
 On day two we employed a guide for an hour. He not
only explained all the history but gave us a tour of key sites
 Casts taken by pouring melted plaster of paris into
the voids left by the decompsed bodies
 All the bodies "Garden of the
Fugatives"
 Amphi Theatre - next stage was the
Collisseum
 Rafael explaining the tiered sections according to
wealth - the boys said much like at Old Trafford!
 Spectacular preserved painting of Venus in a
wealthy persons villa
 Stepping stones across the road (the road was awash
with dirt and animal "waste"
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