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Prologue: Tribute to the SWC South Africa 2010!D-Day: A beginning Eastfield to Istandbul: Grumpyness at 30000ft Turkish shuttle Istanbul by day Istanbul by night Long walk to freedom Lisbon walking tour Discovering Lisbon Exploring Sintra Fado’s night out The rain in Spain falls mainly on my brain A day in medieval Toledo Madrid on a Sunday Flamenco por una buena causa To Barcelona Barcelona! Barcelona!Gaudi in the morning Olympic in the afternoon Chilling in Barcelona La Rambla To Nice A Nice night Relax, take it Eze Monaco in an afternoon Chilling in Nice To Venice Our first day in Venice The attempt at Venice night photos The second day in Venice The last night in Venice The Farewell Frenzy in Firenze Exploring Florence Conquering the Dome Conquering the Torra Lucca, I am your father Picnic in Pisa A day in Pisa When in Rome…Ancient scorching Rome Welcome to Naples (and its crazy traffic)A day in Capri Ancient scorching Pompeii To Santa Fortunata Chilling in Sorrento Back to Rome Aida and the catacombs The Vatican in a flash The End

jnroux

Western Europe 2010

Ancient scorching Pompeii

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Jul 14 2010, 12:39 PM

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jnroux
Somerset West, South Africa

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Pompeii, Italy

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We got up at about 7:00 this morning and decided to take the Metro to Napoli’s central station, since the busses are too confusing. Surprise, surprise the Metro was even more confusing… I did not think you can screw up a Metro map, but the Italians can. In the end an Italian guy saw the confusion on our faces and helped us. From the main station of Napoli we took their “special” train, Circumvesuviana, to Sorrento. From here we took the bus (Line A) to our camping grounds and left our baggage here. Since our cabin was not ready yet we went to the station to travel to Pompeii. “If I can provide you with one piece of advice for the future (when visiting Pompeii)… use sunscreen.” Again we arrived at the ancient city at the heat of the day, but this did not hamper our enthusiasm. Pompeii is really super awesome! There are buildings dating from 5 centuries before Christ! In many places the walls of the house are so well preserved that you can still see their wall paintings and text (apparently some of it is ancient graffiti). The city is huge and we basically spent the whole day wandering though the city (and the house of Miracles) and read the interesting guide that they supplied us with. I don’t think our photos really captures the awesomeness… you would have to visit it yourself to comprehend it. In the end, the sun did take its toll (since we left our sunscreen at the camp site) and we left Pompeii at about 15:20 with a good idea of how warm it would be with larva flowing down the streets of Pompeii.

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