<h2>Ah, Italy. Where wine flows like water, lemons hang fat on every tree, and volcanoes erupt every couple millenia to kill everyone.</h2>
<h3>From a not-so-recent vacation to Italy, the wife and I got to walk through the dead streets of Pompeii. A huge city buried under ash, and still only partially excavated.</h3>

<h3>I grabbed a nice photo of a street leading off towards something that was probably grand once, if the remnants of the columns are any indication.</h3>

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<sub><i>A beautiful blue sky (gray here, since, y'know, monomad), but the layers of brick and stone are clearly visible. The brick they used to build the columns and buildings was everywhere, then typically covered with plaster or frescos.</i> </sub>

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