12-09-2017, 12:05 PM
Hi Duncan
I was staying in Pompeii itself in a hotel across the road from the amphitheatre entrance, We were first in, although the gate was opened 30 minutes late. Had it opened on time we might have seen the main street empty too but by the time we got there the crowds had arrived from the main entrance.
We got to Herculaneum just as it opened. We were using the train as well.
At Stabiae it had just poured down with rain when we arrived so the site was virtually empty. In fact we were lucky, the day after we visited Pompeii there was a torrential rainstorm there but we had decided to go to Naples that day. As we returned to Pompeii all the tourist stalls were closed or closing because the weather was so bad.
Interesting point about the swords. They were copied in the nineteenth century and are known as the infantry or artillery officers sword. The same pattern sword also appears in some Hollywood movies such as 'The Robe'.
Graham.
I was staying in Pompeii itself in a hotel across the road from the amphitheatre entrance, We were first in, although the gate was opened 30 minutes late. Had it opened on time we might have seen the main street empty too but by the time we got there the crowds had arrived from the main entrance.
We got to Herculaneum just as it opened. We were using the train as well.
At Stabiae it had just poured down with rain when we arrived so the site was virtually empty. In fact we were lucky, the day after we visited Pompeii there was a torrential rainstorm there but we had decided to go to Naples that day. As we returned to Pompeii all the tourist stalls were closed or closing because the weather was so bad.
Interesting point about the swords. They were copied in the nineteenth century and are known as the infantry or artillery officers sword. The same pattern sword also appears in some Hollywood movies such as 'The Robe'.
Graham.
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
