Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Vesuvius - Day 5

This was one of my favourite days, to be honest! We were supposed to go to Ercolano and the Vesuvius, but Ercolano was closed because of a storm so we just went to the volcano. We shared a big taxi with a very nice british couple, some dude from Seattle with big muscles and his mom, and a very rude woman and his cool husband. Seriously, I just wanted to slap the woman across her face. We stoped to see the views and she was all like "Ohhh this is pretty! Wait what exactly are we looking at?" *her husband answers Naples "What?! Really? But it just looks so.. so flat!".

Our family just laughed and laughed. She was one of those americans got surprised that we actually ate with forks and knives, because shocker... we're actually a first world country *gasps all over the room*. When we headed back to Ercolano after climbing the Vesuvius, that woman started yelling at the driver and calling him stupid for not taking her precisely where she wanted! "This dude just keeps telling us the prices gos- HEY. LISTEN. WE WANT TO GO DIRECTLY TO POMPEII! Is that so hard to understand, geez!" And her husband was  like holy tits there she goes again. She ignored the rest of us awaiting in the taxi while we just calmly waited for her to stop yelling at the poor man.... Anyway...











That's the crater. I didn't take that many photos of the view because we were so high that we were litteraly covered in clouds (and with a lot of cold!). On the way up there we saw trails of lava from the most recent explosion, which was in 1949 if I'm not mistaken. It was an haunting experience. Knowing that once again, in a few more years, he will wake up again and claim everything that is his. The things is that when the whole Pompeii thing happened, there weren't that many civilizations surrounding the Vesuvius, but now there are, and they're a lot! And one day they will be nothing but ashes and dust...




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