Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Buried alive

The title does not refer to but rather our destination today. We visited Pompeii.

I had been fascinated by Pompeii as a child and never thought I would ever walk the streets in person.

The harbor is the lower left corner (before the lava flow Pompeii was right on the sea):


In the public baths:


A bakery, with the kiln and grain grinders:

Note the parallel ruts in the stone road - made by the passage of many carts and chariots:






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