Matthew Priem and Jacob Shaw
Well, hello there gracious community of Tumut (and Batlow), its Matt and Jake typing away here. Today, day 14 of the Europe trip was started with a rather delightful breakfast consisting of croissant filled with cheese and ham with a side of cocoa pops and juice. Shortly after breakfast at 7.30 we jumped onto a bus that took us to the ancient city of Pompeii which was covered by falling ash and pumice to over 10 metres deep.
Here we found our tour guide Nino who pointed out the major buildings and artefacts such as the Forum, Amphitheatre and last but not least the many Brothels. 
After the guide left, the Ancient History students accompanied by Mr Boyd continued to explore the site taking many photos needed for the course. After a selected few had lunch, the bus then went off to the next archaeological site of Herculaneum.
Herculaneum unlike Pompeii was covered by a pyroclastic flow which covered the town with 20 metres of mud and molten lava. 
After about 3 hours of wandering the ancient streets of Herculaneum we headed back to our bus which took us back to the hotel where we chilled for 20 minutes until being summoned to perform the almighty act of blogging.
Love to all the family back home can’t wait to see you soon.
This is Jake and Matt signing out.
