Saturday 8 October 2011
Showers were the first order of business at Pompeii Camp. Next we checked out, sent an e-mail from the camp restaurant, and walked across the street to buy tickets to view the ancient city of Pompeii. Charles got in free!
We entered the well preserved skeleton of a town, destroyed in 79 AD by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which ironically perfectly preserved it underneath the ash and volcanic rock. Nicole found it especially interesting to walk around its streets and into old homes because her Latin textbook's characters had been set in a time when the city was thriving.
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| Nicole's Latin textbook followed a character (based on a real person from Pompeii) named Caecilius Iucundi |
After roughly three hours of walking amongst the ruins, we set out for a closer look at Mount Vesuvius. We got up about three quarters of the way for a spectacular view of Salerno, but decided to skip walking the mouth of the crater.
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| Pompeiian peasants running from the lava flow |
By evening we had found Camping Villaggio Azzurro nestled in a crevice below a hill town at the start of the Amalfi Coast. We were greeted by a gypsy, who it turns out was a woman in costume for a pirate-themed birthday party for her son. Next we met Woody Allen, or at least he
looked like him to us. He said we could use his Internet, and told us he had run the camp for over 40 years- (Woody Allen probably wouldn't have lasted that long).
After a cold beer and hot soup we fell into bed, listening to the light rain pattering on the roof.
Showers were the first order of business at Pompeii Camp. Next we checked out, sent an e-mail from the camp restaurant, and walked across the street to buy tickets to view the ancient city of Pompeii. Charles got in free!
We entered the well preserved skeleton of a town, destroyed in 79 AD by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which ironically perfectly preserved it underneath the ash and volcanic rock. Nicole found it especially interesting to walk around its streets and into old homes because her Latin textbook's characters had been set in a time when the city was thriving.
After roughly three hours of walking amongst the ruins, we set out for a closer look at Mount Vesuvius. We got up about three quarters of the way for a spectacular view of Salerno, but decided to skip walking the mouth of the crater.
By evening we had found Camping Villaggio Azzurro nestled in a crevice below a hill town at the start of the Amalfi Coast. We were greeted by a gypsy, who it turns out was a woman in costume for a pirate-themed birthday party for her son. Next we met Woody Allen, or at least he looked like him to us. He said we could use his Internet, and told us he had run the camp for over 40 years- (Woody Allen probably wouldn't have lasted that long).
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