Pit Stop: Pompeii 🌋

Thankfully, this morning, we found a half decent coffee shop with fresh pastries 🥐 available at typical European prices… Two coffees, and two fresh croissants for under five euro 💶 Not many things in life are certain, but, one thing I know for sure, ‘Faulty Towers’ in “… the Dandenong of Rome…” (…as a fellow traveler 🧳 dubbed it: apologies to any friends In Dandenong) will never 👎🏻 have the pleasure of my company again 😝😉

Over the next week we are visiting 4 different regions in the south of Italy 🇮🇹 - different languages, cultures and food. Italy is a united country but diverse and divided due to people coming from so many different countries by boat 🚤 in historical barbarian arrivals (Albania, Greece, Yugoslavia…) This is why the architecture is so different & unique.

First stop: the ancient city of Pompeii where 1000’s of people were frozen in time in when Mt Vesuvius spewed volcanic gas & ash and buried an entire civilisation. It has been held that the lives of ancient Pompeiians were tragically cut short on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, when Mount Vesuvius unleashed its fury, smothering Pompeii and other cities along its perimeter with volcanic debris.

My choice of footwear, being sandals was not the best idea on the metres and metres of cobblestone alleyways that used to be the roads in Pompeii. There are many images of bricks 🧱 mortar, stones and frescoes that may be slightly monotonous to anyone who hasn’t experienced the lost city but hopefully 🤞 some may be of interest.

Another extremely hot 🥵 day and lots of walking in the hottest part of the day… it felt like we were walking on hot 🔥 lava!

It was interesting to hear that the people of Pompeii were very fluid with their sexuality & sexual activity… Anything goes/went! 😱😝😳

Fun/sad fact: When Vesuvius erupted it shot ash and gases 30km into the shy for 12 hours! Gas instantly killed anyone who wasn’t already covered with ash and debris. Terrifying 🌋Read more