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    • Sur Les Rails du Climat
      Day 103

      Week end à Napoli, Week end de folie !

      June 18, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

      🌋 La ville de Pompéi se trouvant à quelques kilomètres de Naples, nous en profitons pour faire une journée culturelle pour se balader dans les ruines de cette cité engloutie par le Vésuve en 79 après JC. La découverte des moulages des corps des victimes, retrouvées dans la position où elles sont décédées, est émouvante !

      🍕 On en profite aussi pour déguster des pizzas de renom aux championnats du monde de pizzas. Cette année, les meilleurs pizzaiolo vont tenter de battre le record de la plus longue pizza du monde : qui mesurait, tenez vous bien, 1854m en 2018, malheureusement on est parti avant la réalisation de cette maxi pizza … 🤤

      🌸 Quelques photos pour vous partager le charme de la ville de Naples, connue pour son « chaos organisé » de scooters et ses petites ruelles très en pente et bien animées, qui donnent une magnifique vue sur les îles alentours et le Vésuve.

      ⚠️ Breaking news ⚠️

      L’équipe de Sur les Rails du Climat gagne un nouveau joueur ! Et oui c’est notre petite Marion, également en année de césure, qui décide de nous rejoindre pour ces deux dernières semaines italienne, on est ravi !      Read more

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    • TravelerEuropa Reise
      Day 8

      Da simer u blibe eh Moment😊😊

      April 10 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

      Ändlech da ahcho und ihgrichtet u ijz mau wieder chli chille😊😊😁
      Si mit de Velos ga ichoufe. Ou we si aui chli psycho sii, wei si eim wenigstens nid umbringen u mä fühlt sech wohl uf dr strass🤣

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    • TravelerEuro Quest
      11
      Day 27

      Day Twenty-Seven: Pompeii & Rome

      April 11 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

      Honestly, I am writing this post on the 18th of April... I have been having a blast, but it has been a long drag of getting over a sickness, moving so much, and staying up late. I'm not sure how the others do it. They are partying so much more than me! But for the next while the summaries are going to be a lot shorter. And I'm not a writer, so this all feels like flashbacks to uni ahah. It has been bumming me out. I don't have the posts up, so I'm going to comprise with smaller posts.

      To was a lot, and if I wasn't shortening it, this would be a novel. Today, we say Pompeii, the Roman forum, and the colosseum! Honestly, one of the days I was most excited for, and it did live up to the expectations. Firstly, it was weird how Pompeii was just in the middle of a city, I thought it was going to be in the middle of nowhere. But it was a surreal experience walking around something so old and lively back in the day. It was fun just imagining what it would have been like and looked like. Turns out it would have been a very colorful city that had 23 brothels, hahaha. With actually dicks as directions. Our tour guide called them GPS penis. Some of the houses were huge and weirdly shaped for sure. I couldn't imagine living in them. Our tour guide even gave us a longer tour, which was fun. And the volcano actually looks like have of it is missing! I have more fun facts, but I did write some of them down, which is good. Afterward, I had some good soup to help with the hangover, and we were off to Rome. Right when we got there, we had a coffee and went on our Roman Forum and Colosuem tour. I wasn't ready for the forum, but it was actually so cool, holding stuff from before 80 B.C. and even got to see where Julius Cesaer Dead Body was placed and then cremated! And the area where the emperor's house would be, on top of the hill, looking down of everyone. Then, the Colosseum, which I learned, was built 200 years ago and took only 8 years to build. As well as the fact every arch had a statue, so 160 statues since there were 80 archs per level. And it felt way bigger than I was ready for, probably because I saw the small version first. It was very beautiful and fun to just picture what it was like and see photos of what it was. Crazy point is that even at one time, a French family made it into their castle! But then we had an included dinner and went off to bed!      Read more

    • Italien
      Day 17

      Pompei

      November 24, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

      Die Römische Stadt Pompei wurde im Jahr 79 n.Chr. durch eine heftige Eruption des Vesuvs völlig zerstört. Die Ausgrabungen geben Aufschluss wie damals gelebt und gearbeitet wurde.
      Nach der ausgiebigen Besichtigung des riesigen Geländes haben wir Lust auf Natur. Wir fahren zu einem Platz auf der Halbinsel Sorent. Die Fahrt endet nach einer langen kurvenreichen schmalen Strecke dann auf dem Monte Faito in 1200 m Höhe mit einer tollen Aussicht und guten Wandermöglichkeiten.Read more

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    • MiezeItalien
      Day 13

      Montag im Regen

      January 10, 2023 in Italy ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

      Da in Tropea eine heftige Regenfront im Anmarsch war, haben wir uns entschlossen, die Stadt der roten Zwiebeln zu verlassen und weil unser Ziel auf Sizilien sich leider auch in Luft aufgelöst hat, sind wir in Richtung Amalfiküste aufgebrochen. Wir haben den Tag weitestgehend im Auto verbracht und haben in Regen und Sturm den Nationalpark *Riserva Statale Valle del Fiume Argentino durchquert. Das war sehr spektakulär, unfassbare Schluchten und Berge und dazu dieser Regen und ein Sturm, der auf den Bergen noch viel stärker war als im Tal. Einige Regenbögen und viele Kurven später haben wir uns entschlossen, Amalfi und Salerno erstmal links liegen zu lassen - das macht ja bei Regen auch nicht wirklich Spaß - und sind in Pompei gestrandet. Hier stehen wir nun unter Zitronen- und Orangenbäumen und machen uns gleich auf den Weg ein wenig Kultur und Zeitgeschichte zu *atmen*….Read more

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    • The Shifting SpannersEurope 2019
      11
      Day 24

      Pompeii

      October 13, 2019 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

      We caught the Freccarossa fast train from Rome to Naples...reaching up to 298kph on the way. Our driver and mercedes van were waiting for us at the station and drove us to the Pompeii ruins. A private guide then took us for a 2 hour tour of the ruins which was fantastic! After the tour she took us back to a restaurant, where the driver was waiting, who then summoned the waiter who set us up at the best table in the place...we felt like VIP's! After lunch the driver (who had waited for us for 3 hours by this stage), took us to our AirBnB at Sorrento.

      Unbelievable story of the burial of Pompeii from the rocks and ash from Mt. Vesuvius. Very interesting...      Read more

    • TravelerSoweit die Beine tragen......
      12
      Day 29

      Heute geht es auf den Vesuv

      September 17, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      Die Nacht war " Schlafen auf der Autobahn"🤣
      24 Stunden Kommen und Gehen
      Um 04.00 Uhr wurde die Straße gereinigt, mit einem Benzinlaubbläser🤔ständig An- und Abfahrten.
      Da habe ich mich entschlossen früh den Berg rauf zu fahren. Wenn ich sowieso schon wach bin.
      Also Zähne putzen und los geht's. 👍
      Es ist noch wenig los, schnell noch einen Cappuccino an der letzten Bar im Ort und weiter geht's.
      Eine schöne Rampe mit Kopfsteinpflaster.....da wird man schön warm und locker......
      Bis......ich vor verschlossenem Tor stehe😪
      Öffnungszeit: 09.00 Uhr...stand vorher nirgendwo
      Also 90 Minuten warten....
      Aber was sind schon 90 Minuten im Vergleich zu der Tour😊
      Vorteil: hier ist es viel ruhiger als unten🤣
      Vielleicht sollte ich eine Runde schlafen 🤣
      Auch die 90 Minuten sind rum gegangen.
      Los geht's erst nach dem Eintragen von Name und Telefonnummer.
      Dann beginnt der Aufstieg .
      Es ist einer der härtesten die ich bei diese Tour gefahren bin🤔in der Sonne und echt steil....nach der Betonpiste kommt Kopfsteinpflaster und dann Vulkanasche.
      Den Weg, den mir Google genannt hat ist nicht für den normalen Straßenverkehr zugelassen.
      Zum Ende hin wird das Rad geschoben.
      Dann bin ich am zweiten Zugangshäuschen.Hier muss ich online eine Karte kaufen. Das geht leider nicht und ohne Karte mit gebuchter Uhrzeit kein Zugang 🙄
      Mehrmals versucht, keine Chance.
      Dank der Dame am Häuschen und Funk bekomme ich Zugang ohne Karte😅😇🥰
      Dann sind es nur noch 20 Minuten,das Rad muss zurück bleiben.
      Die Fotos macht eine junge Holländerin.
      Geschafft💯      Read more

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    • Doteyboaty
      Day 414

      Pompeii

      August 29, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

      We have hired a car because the direct train from Solerno to Pompeii isn’t running this week.

      We can’t believe we are here in Pompeii, a place we have all heard about for years.
      It is more impressive than we could have ever imagined. The size and scale of the city, how well preserved it is and how sophisticated things were 2000 years ago. We love the stepping stones across the old roads that kept the residents feet up out of the dirty roads. The shops had sliding doors as well as counters with built in storage. The homes they lived in were beautiful and had courtyards, water features, mosaics and sculptures.
      Ruby and Colm enlighten us about different Greek and Roman gods when we see a statue of one or walk through a temple dedicated to another. I am amazed how they can recall complicated background stories and family trees of the different Gods they have read about in the books by Rick Riordan and Stephen Fry.
      Throughout the day I find myself looking towards Mount Vesuvius and thinking about the twenty feet of ash that fell and buried this entire city. We visit the casts of bodies found in the garden of the fugitives. It is moving to see them lying down, as they were when their died.
      We stay for most of the day, taking in as much as we can until our minds and bodies are overwhelmed.
      We head to the nearest Gelateria for the cure.      Read more

    • TravelerMediterranean Cruise and Rome
      Day 7

      Fascinated by the history of Pompeii🌋

      July 21, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 90 °F

      We were mesmerized learning about the history of the Mt. Vesuvius eruption and how it destroyed the flourishing city of Pompeii. Today, it is the 7th most dangerous volcano in the world. Our guide, Luca, provided us with listening devices as he walked us through the museum and a small part of Pompeii. We spent about an hour on the tour, but it could have taken close to half a day to cover all the grounds.

      Looking at the plaster molds of the bodies was bone chilling. The ones that shook me the most were the mother trying to cover her child and the plaster casting of the pregnant lady. Imagining an ash storm lasting for 2 days is unimaginable. The people of the town had no idea that Mt. Vesuvius was a volcano, and perished as the ash continued to fall on them.

      From the museum we began touring the city. Luca compared Pompeii to New York in terms of it being a large, flourishing city. Similar to any large city, there was a city-center with government buildings, places of entertainment, and parks, surrounded by homes.      Read more

    • TravelerJanuary 2023
      111111
      Day 21

      Pompeii Museum

      January 10, 2023 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 52 °F

      Here’s a glimpse of the museum at Pompeii. I’m not sure how long it’s been here, but it wasn’t here when I visited back in 2011.

      The ash petrified horse is a recent discovery. I was also surprised to see the teeth in one of the volcano victim’s mouth!Read more

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