Snow!

Snow is rather rare in Vienna. So when it started to snow 2 days ago I took my camera and went outside to capture some winter impressions.

My loyal companion loves snow even more than I do.

Pompeij

I am a big fan of the ancient world. Athens, Mykene, Rome, ..... To walk in these places imagening how life has been there 2000 years ago, the feeling to relive history - that's really fascinating for me.

Therefore I wanted to visit Pompeij for a long time but somehow I never made it. But now I did it. My expectations were enormous - and still they were surpassed. The size alone is overwhelming. Pompeij is really comparable to a modern city in size. We walked the excavation site for more than 7 hours and still we did not see everything.

To walk Pompeij is one of the most fascinating things. There is so much to see, to read and to guess (What was this? Who lived there? What did they do in these rooms?).

The frescos on the walls are still in great conditions ...

... as are the mosaic floors

And above all there is Vesuvio looming - always visible, most of the time with a cloud obscuring the summit, shadows on the flanks, always a reminder to what happened in 79.

Of course there is a lot more to see in and around Naples. Herculaneum, the Archaeological Museum or the amphitheater in Pozzuoli just to name a few. And if you need even more incentives to go there - this is how the sunset looks.