Pompei

A colloseum in Pompei. I think it's the oldest one still standing or something like that.



Team Woomert. Girls in lighter shades of whatever the boys are wearing. I felt so out of place...

Inside it was big and round and old and had lots of people taking pictures in it.

This is actually one some of the smoothest street stones in the entirety of Pompie. Most places there was about four inches of space between the worn down stones and the stones themselves stood about six inches from the ground, so it was very hard to walk anywhere without paying close attention to your feet... which is hard to do because there is interesting old stuff everywhere around you.

These were some really hugemongous trees outside the colloseum... although you can't tell how tall they are in the picture... or course...

I think this is something famous because I kept seeing pictures of it.

This guy was about a foot tall and very naked. I was clever in the angle I photographed him at.

A street in Pompei. We had a map of Pompei and we would walk to places that sounded interesting. We would often take the long way round places to avoid large crowds of tourists. They would sometimes overtake us and surround us in a wave of cameras and conversation... always lead by someone carrying a flag... or a pole... or sometimes just a piece of trash on a stick.

A random courtyard.

Another street (Tallis looks epic). I was a little dissapointed in what the tourists had done to Pompei. Every little nook or cranny was filled with wrappers and bottles. Thousand year old wells had a layer of old coke bottles and trash at the bottom. Trash and garbage hid, in little quanteties, was sprinkled all over Pompei.

An ancient bath house. The people in charge had layed carpet down over all the floor tiles so as not to ruin the mosaics. It was rather sweltering inside, but very cool.

Temple o'Zeus I do believe.

This was a cool tower circle-y thing, but I have no idea what it was. There were lizards all over it and Tivoli caught one.

We walked around all day and got very tired and hot and ready for a meal by the time we left. We walked down a street to a hip little cafe and got pizza there. Tallis and I played poker in the car by the light of the few lamps in the auto camp that night. I was bit by a lot of mosquitoes that night. There were a whole bunch of fireworks that went off in the distance around three in the morning, which was a little bit awakening. Plus I thought Pompei was erupting every time a train went past the autocamp... but other than that it was a good night of sleeping in the car. Well... as good as a night of sleeping in a car can get.