You’d have to be pretty mental to go to the med in the height of summer and climb a volcano, but you’d have to be totally stupid to do that and THEN spend the afternoon walking round some ruins in the baking heat with no shade.. So that’s exactly what we did today.
The volcano was good, but hard work. The ground was very loose so it was like walking a few miles up a vertical beach.. Where the beach was inside an oven on gas mark 7! The volcano is still technically active but has been sleeping so unfortunately there was no steam or anything exciting going on, just a honking great crater. On the pictures of the crater, the ‘bushes’ at the bottom are actually 4m high trees. The road on the way up and down was like a roller coaster ride and one guy threw up into a carrier bag on the way down.. Which was lovely.
When we arrived in pompeii we got a ‘free’ scoop of icecream for our lunch.. Expected a bit more for our 120 dollars each. The ruins themselves were amazing, and the guide was good, but it was so hot we were all flagging a bit.. It was a relief to get back to the airconditioned bus!
Both completely knackered so probably an early night tonight. Think I might need to buy some new legs when I get home because these are beyond repair!
