#inapastlife 🍷🇮🇹1891AD Pompei Italy. Drinking With Ray & Vanessa Small video too, in the modern city this time, I know, no history. And 🤷♂️1 YEAR AGO! Yes, this was on July 31 2020. We have officially hit one year behind. Oh boy. Oh well. 🗓️
🇮🇹1891? Yes you heard that right, from the 79 AD🌋 destruction of ancient city, 1,812 years later the modern city was built next to ruins. By the 1890s the Pompeii ruins was a marvel of archaeological study and antiquity lovers of the world. That was all the craze at the time into the 1920s-30s. I am sure even then, the city benefited from tourism, scientific minds visiting, and investment into the area. A nice suburb of Naples with a really really cool nextdoor neighbor, Pompeii Archealogical Park.
🇮🇹Here 1875-1901 Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary Catholic Church was built (in a lot of these pictures) and tower was completed built 1912-1925 too. After the long, hot, historical journey exploring of ancient Pompeii ruins (I posted all about before this)… we hung out in the square, walked around the posh little city, and had some food/drinks per usual. Interesting Order of Malta 🇲🇹and Vatican🇻🇦 flags flying. We were served some snacks with a British🇬🇧 and Mexican 🇲🇽flag on it (I think the workers guess which country the intl guests are from). I was British and Vanessa was Mexican I assume. That’s funny.
🍷🥂#DrinkingwithRay Later that night filmed a funny video where we banter almost podcast style trying some local red wine and Northern Italian Aquavit or Grappa (video 1). We get into how Greek colonists brought their ancient wine traditions to Southern Italy. We talk other spirits of the world like Pelinka in Croatia, Ouzo from Greece, and other drinks we’ve tried at that point. WHAT A DAY! And how the international tourists and academics that have flocked to the area, plus the Italian bravado, made this city into quite the interesting place. They were very wealthy here and we felt very under-dressed. Much different than the hood in Naples.