Pompeii!

More holiday! Pompeii was just amazing. We had the funniest tour guide. He was seventy in the shade and he was so considerate. We did not do the normal tour group thingy, he said he would show us what he thought was important and impressive. He would tells us to stand back in the shade all the time and let the tourists go past, as we were not tourists but enjoying the wonders of history.......he had this quirky umbrella which broke half way through the tour and I took a picture just to show what it looks like at the end (below).

It was amazing to see the technology they had even back then. The bakeries were definate, even street signs. There was a street sign for the 'pub' (at the top) and street signs for the local whore house too (down the bottom - the penis!). some of the houses even had penis signs out the front to promote fertility!!!(below) The local whore house had pictures painted on the ceiling which the tour guide told us it was like a menu board (just below) - you choose what style you would like at the time! LOL!

I took a picture of the people found - these were discovered as they were unearthing, they would come accross pockets of air, then realised there were bones lying in the bottom of these pockets and knew it was either human or animal. They would fill these pockets with plaster of paris to find out. The most gruesome I felt was the dog (below) it looked like it suffered the most pain out of those bodies they had on display. Our tour guide was telling us that they are still finding new things today, and are now rebuilding alot of the temples they keep finding. I can not remember how big this site is, but i remember the comparision to Brisbane, and it was bigger!!!! Some of the new town below it has been built on some of the ruins. Call me a geek, but I just love all this history!!!