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These pictures accompany the book -
Europe in a Motorhome
A Mid-Life Gap Year  Around Southern Europe
Italy
Florence
Florence
Bracciano
Pisa
Campsite in Tuscany
'.....The rain and storms returned that night and we awoke to a dismal, grey morning.  A unanimous vote was soon taken to stay in bed for as long as possible and have a lazy day recovering from our hectic dash into Italy.  We took it in turns to walk the three feet necessary to make a cup of tea and enjoyed snuggling under our duvets with good books.  When the sun did finally appear again, Simon walked to the village for fresh ciabatta bread, the campsite owners pottered around tidying up the storm damage and as the clouds lifted, beautiful Tuscan views emerged.'
The excavated ruins of Ercolano
Pompeii
.......The next day we caught the local train to Ercolano, the nearby city that was also devastated by Veusvius's eruption. Ercolano (or Herculaneum, supposedly founded by Hercules), was not covered by ash, but by a mud slide thirty meters high.   .....'ash had covered the dead; the corpses eventually disintegrated leaving a perfect mould, right down to the folds in their clothing.  Fiorelli poured liquid plaster into these moulds and hence had perfect replicas. A fascinating, if gruesome epitaph to the last moments of the inhabitants of Pompeii'....