Archive | November 10, 2011
A day at Pompeii
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For our visitor’s final day in Italy, we visited Pompeii, one of the three towns destroyed by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD. What sets Pompeii apart from other roman ruins is the fact that the eruption buried the town under 3 metres of ash thereby effectively freezing the town at a point […]
Amalfi, Ravello and dinner
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On Sunday we took our visitors to Amalfi and Ravello. This a drive of only 25kms from Positano but it takes the best part of 50 minutes given the narrow winding road along the coast. You pass through picturesque villages along the way but at each one the road twists between buildings and it can, […]
