Pompeii 🌋

Wow! Not even sure where to begin! After being super proud of ourselves for figuring out the trains (one station was hidden inside another one) we were promptly humbled as our train got stranded for 25 mins at one station (we later found out that the train in front of ours briefly caught fire #justitalytings) but we eventually made it to Pompeii!! Alfred had obviously been before but I had no idea what to expect - the whole town was amazingly preserved with 2000 year old frescos adorning every intact internal wall! There was also heaps of cheeky Roman graffiti that we giggled at the translations to later over dinner! It sounds bizarre but everything was left so suddenly I was almost expecting the shop keepers to walk back in and carry on as they were - I almost forgot about the tragic side of the town. The plaster casts of the victims were a strange mix of sad and fascinating and well worth our adventures to seek out. There was too much to possibly see in one day but we gave it a great crack before finding out that the Train Fryer 3000 had struck again and opting to gun it across town to a different station rather than do battle with violent Italian nonnas on the replacement busses.Læs mere