A blissful way to spend a night is to sail on calm seas having watched a glorious sunset, under starry skies. The crossing from Patra to Brindisi has to rank as one of the best such journeys. The Greek coastline gives way to the islands and all the way the Aegean/med is just serene. We read on ..

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.
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Though you know logically that you only have a year and a day, its only when the major milestones come around (and they come around so fast) that it sinks in. We’d celebrated four birthdays – in San Francisco, Costa Rica, New Zealand and Pompeii – now only Jenna’s was left. Our baby had spent read on ..