But I thought you might like to see some of the ghoulish highlights from the trip; starting with Pompeii.
We climbed Mt. Vesuvius first. It was like trekking uphill in sand... very black sand, with sinkholes at the railing.
Before entering the 'ruins' (Pompeii is intact enough to almost scoff at the word) we had hot chocolate. This a recipe I have got to research -- it was more like really warm, delicious pudding.
I loved walking the streets. Imaging the living city was not difficult at all. A person could really lose himself in the history there.
Seeing the casts of the dead was, of course, a highlight for me (though certainly not the only one). I did not know that many of those who died were the rich, who did not want to abandon their homes to possible looters, nor that many did not die right away -- but over the course of a few days -- from suffocation.
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