Pompeii

 

 

 

 

Okey dokey, Pompeii! We planned to get up all early for this one, as it's one of them top to do things on my travelling list. I don't even really know why. Old stuff, gets me every time. We got the super cheap train the few stops to half way between Vico Equense and Naples, to the Pompeii stop, grabbed some random food and drinks from the stalls and in we go. I thought I was going to get in for cheap or free or something cos I was 25, and on a Euro passport, but turns out you have to be under 25. No biggie. It was a really nice warm day again, lucky us. And into the ruinssssssssssssssssyusssssssssss. Sometimes I get this super excited anxious feeling in my chest when I finally get to do something I'd wanted for ages, and boy oh boy was it on today. Anywho, enough of that, and onto the awesome.

It's insane how well preserved the place is, I mean, 79AD, whaaaaaat?!?! Walking down the streets there is so much to see, like whole houses, paintings on the walls, murals, the mosaics in the floors (ah-mazing), stores and just wow. Listening to the little audio guide they give you is handy, sometimes there were things you wouldn't really have noticed, looking into a house, then it tells you about it and you see it and I guess appreciate the view a bit more. I say that because sometimes its like a gate you have to kinda peer through and search out the goods on the far wall or the roof or behind the garden. And there is SO MUCH to see, they recommend you have 5 hours or so to get around it all, and Sam and I only had about 4, which sounds like heaps but more time would have been better. Kinda reminded me of the TV show Sparticus hahahaha.

One part that was really cool was going to the amphitheatre where >Pink Floyd< played in 1972, having watched it as a teenager. Wow. I was cool. Sam and I did pose for some gladiator photos while pretending the other tourists weren't looking at us like WTF. Another really sweet part was the baths. They were probably the most well preserved part, or maybe they had just been the most decorated parts in the first place, I dunno. So much detail still there with all the reliefs pretty much intact and even hooks on the wall. Pretty Pretty.

So. The sun started to go down and we had about 10 minutes till it closed when we realised we had completely skipped the part where the sculptures of the holes they filled in while excavating. Them really sad, kinda creepy moulds of people cowering and covering children, and dogs in the street. So sad or...anyway, we missed it, there were a couple in the main marketplace (them photos up above) so never mind. When we went to Melbourne one time there was a Pompeii exhibition on that we went to, so it was super to see it all actually IN Pompeii.

So yeah, 10/10 points from me.