SUMMER 1963 TOUR, p.22
Ben Oostdam's Autobiography:
July 30, 1963 cont.
We set up our tent at dusk paying $1 to the owner of the restaurant.
 guidebook
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I also bough a small guidebook and chatted with some other campers, one of which gave us two tickets for that night's Open Air Amphitheater performance of "Euripides", where we walked after a good dinner. It was in Italian, with fireworks and interesting audience, but we left at midnight. |
 Amphitheater with 20,000 seats |
 Herculaneum |
 early diggings at Pompeji |
 Visit of German Emperor to Pompeji |
 Pompeji (in German, excellent picts and organization) BLO fecit 20030323 |
July 31, 2003: The next morning we walked through the neglected excavations , found some tasty berries and saw numerous lizards. Memories of gypsum molds and casts of tragic scenes, frescoes, mozaics, amphora, narrow streets with high sidewalks and deep wheel-ruts.
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 Pompeji Today Google-translated from German COMMENTS ? next page |
