Catching up a bit here.
First a side note. Yesterday Mt. Etna erupted for the first time this year. And we missed it by four days. Is that good or bad? Bad, I think as I don’t believe it impacted flights out of Catania. And it would have been cool to see.
Oh well. Life is Chance.
During those intervening days we have done and seen a lot of other things. On the way from Naples down to Amalfi we stopped to tour the archeological ruins at Herculaneum and Pompeii. There are lots and lots and lots of rocks and bricks and walls and columns. And really the size of Pompeii is pretty incredible. In general I would say that we were somewhat unimpressed in as much as the sites didn’t quite live up to the much anticipated hype that the weight of a lifetime of longing to see them lays down on one’s expectations. But that is undoubtedly our fault more than theirs. And it may be more a product of the fact that the truly amazing aspects of the site are not really for the seeing but for the learning. For instance, when I googled to see how they created the castings of the victims (including the dog in the pictures below), I found this link not just about the process of making the casting so long ago but all of the information that modern science has managed to glean from them since. Worth a quick read.
https://m.ranker.com/list/facts-about-bodies-at-pompeii/andy-miller
First a side note. Yesterday Mt. Etna erupted for the first time this year. And we missed it by four days. Is that good or bad? Bad, I think as I don’t believe it impacted flights out of Catania. And it would have been cool to see.
Oh well. Life is Chance.
During those intervening days we have done and seen a lot of other things. On the way from Naples down to Amalfi we stopped to tour the archeological ruins at Herculaneum and Pompeii. There are lots and lots and lots of rocks and bricks and walls and columns. And really the size of Pompeii is pretty incredible. In general I would say that we were somewhat unimpressed in as much as the sites didn’t quite live up to the much anticipated hype that the weight of a lifetime of longing to see them lays down on one’s expectations. But that is undoubtedly our fault more than theirs. And it may be more a product of the fact that the truly amazing aspects of the site are not really for the seeing but for the learning. For instance, when I googled to see how they created the castings of the victims (including the dog in the pictures below), I found this link not just about the process of making the casting so long ago but all of the information that modern science has managed to glean from them since. Worth a quick read.
https://m.ranker.com/list/facts-about-bodies-at-pompeii/andy-miller
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