Sunday, 14 August 2011

Saturday 13th August

Pompeii today. Went on the train and made the mistake of buying a guide from a man outside the station. We haggled him down to E10 which was still more than they cost in the site.

Roman 'lockers' at the baths


Pompeii is huge an entire town with several bakeries, take-away places and brothels as well as the houses, shops and temples. You can walk down the pavements and some of the streets had speed bumps. We did get to see some of the gruesome plaster casts of dead bodies - Josie's main aim of the day. It was very hot so we had a long lunch break. In the afternoon we went to see the arena and theatre - the theatre is still used.

William enjoying his pizza at the ancient Pompeii Autogrill

 We were exhausted in the evening and had dinner at the hotel again. Not as good as the first night but Josie's vegetarian option was mozzarella fried in lemon leaves.

Gruesome body

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