I just got back from Naples & Rome, so today’s picture is another taken on the trip:
Taken at Pompeii just outside the town’s walls. Not the difference in elevation between the current farm & the one abandoned after the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius.
Wednesday wanderings
9. January, 2013 by Elli Goeke
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Nice, always want to visit here someday, definitely one of the most famous and important moments in the history of humans and geological hazards!