Tomorrow, August 24th, is Mount Vesuvius Day. The day marks the anniversary of Mount Vesuvius erupting in AD79 destroying the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. In 1999 Helen and I visited Pompeii on the tourist trail when the cruise ship we were sailing on docked in the port of Naples. At the time we went on […]
Tag: Italy
Our Time in Pisa
I’ve decided that #throwbackthursday should not be consigned to Instagram anymore. So, with that said, I’m going to kick off with the time we visited the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The Island Escape First, a little background on how came to be in Pisa… In April 2004 Helen, her Dad Bryan, her niece Lizzy, our […]