After a night at sea we ended up in port at the Almalfi coast in Italy, a beautiful spot that Paul would have passed on his way to Rome. It is renowned for its fishing villages and it is the gateway to Pompeii. The first photo is the sunrise that greeted us this morning.
In the morning I took a boat ride to Amalfi village which had a beautiful church and quaint little shops. You can see photos of the boat ride and the village in the first few pictures below. After returning by boat to the main port we were treated to an amazing Italian feast for lunch and then boarded a bus to Pompeii.
The other pictures below are of some of the ruins in Pompeii as well as a pomegranate tree in the middle of them because my daughter loves pomegranates! Pompeii was destroyed in the first century by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which carbonized many of the inhabitants. The second to last photo in the group below is believed to be the first pizza oven because they found the remains of a pizza fossilized in the oven!
The final photo has Mt. Vecuvius in the background of the ruins. You will see that it is shaped like a V because the middle and top of it blew out during that eruption. It still is an active volcano underneath and is monitored on a regular basis.
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