6th June 2013
Had a lie in this morning then went to look at the ruins of Pompeil which were only outside the gate of the campsite. We bought our tickets and with the lonely planet Italy in hand off we walked.We walked up an old Roman road to get to the top of the site which was 2000 years old! It just looked like time stood still. 80,000 people lived here when they were killed by the ash from the erupting Vesuvius Volcano and to put things in to perspective there are only 25,000 living in the new Pompeil now. There was a colosseum ,amphitheatre,a brothel ,snack bar and lots of houses lots of fresco paintings, just as they were all those years ago, we spent about 2 and a half hours walking round just taking it all it, amazing. We had an ice- cream and stopped at the supermarket on the way back to the campsite.
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