Beware of the dog – by Rowan & Rhys

In 79AD the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted over Pompeii. It had erupted before this second eruption, so the people were still reconstructing the city. The eruption covered the city with 7 metres of ash. About 2,000 people were killed but most of them had already gone. Pompeii lay buried for over a thousand years.

The ash preserved the city, the people, pots, money, animals and food which enables us to know more about the past. They even ate muesli!

On dad’s birthday we went Pompeii. We entered the town and we looked around at the nearly all standing city. Apart from the roofs and some smaller poorer houses everything was still standing. As we entered the city we actually bought a guide (well actually only a leaflet guide but still it was all numbered it was all very confusing) Jenna insisted on holding and reading the leaflet so every time we entered a building Jenna would say “oh I know this one its blah blah”. The first building we went to was a court it was like the Parthenon in Athens. It had a platform where the judges used to stand and all the pillars were covered in carvings the whole place was beautiful. We walked down the street where you could still see the cart tracks and to cross the roads people had to walk across raised blocks because there was lots of dung and water on the floor. Then we went to the town square. This was the first place where we saw skeletons with plaster casts over them.