My Italy Adventure:- Pompeii, Herculanium, Sorrento and Naples

I was lucky enough to go to Italy which included Pompeii and Herculanium. Here are some photos from our trip. I have written this up elsewhere so won't write much here too!
Sorrento

There's a deep canyon, also known as 'The valley of the mills'. There, between thick vegetation there's the old mill, functioning since the beginning of the 900's and used to produce flour. The mill was abandoned around 1866.

 One of the shops which looked really old fashioned and pretty.

 Sorrento is famous for wood marquetry or detailed wood carvings set in other wood. There were also a lot of lemons and oranges grown there so a lot of shops sold gifts with those on ceramics/soaps etc.

Mount Versuvius in the background.

 Pompeii! This was the walk into it. It was huge though! We saw so many villas, shops, baths etc etc etc.

 The atrium in one of the many villas. Of the atrium there are small rooms which are bedrooms, and often a shop or kitchen at the front. It lead to the garden surrounded by columns and dining room where they ate lying down.







 

The painted walls - frescos of another villa

The garden of another villa!

One of the amphitheatres.

 One of the many bars for food as most people ate take away food.





 Artifacts in Naples Museum

Outside the museum

 This is a small mosaic of a lady which very very small mosaics (see pic below). Many of the mosaics were this small and detailed which ws amazing!

 A famous dog mosaic. We saw a copy on the floor in a villa from where this was taken.

 The museum inside.

 A model of Pompeii ( or part of the model).

We got Italian Easter eggs identical to this (Yey!) and while away I ate a lot of pizza, even for breakfast!!! My sister ate a lot of nutella and chocolate croissants.

 Herculaneum

 A shop. Note the charcoal wood which still survives!

 Where many of the people hid but unlike in Pompeii, they died of the extreme heat and their brains exploded!

 This was in the clubhouse for slaves who had become free men and had become quite wealthy in their own right.

 One of the grinding places for making flour to make bread.

Some of the mosaics in another villa!