A Personal Look at Pompeii: My 2025 Tour with an Expert Archaeologist

A Personal Look at Pompeii: My 2025 Tour with an Expert Archaeologist Walking up to the entrance of Pompeii is, you know, a very humbling kind of thing. The size of it all, with Mount Vesuvius just sort of hanging out in the background, is honestly a whole lot to take in at first. My immediate thought was that a big group tour, with everyone sort of wearing headphones and following a flag, just was not going to cut it for me. So, I actually decided to find a private tour guide, who was in fact a real archaeologist, for …

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Pompeii for Kids: A Private Tour Review 2025

Pompeii for Kids: A Private Tour Review 2025 Thinking about taking your family to Pompeii is, you know, a pretty big deal. It’s almost one of those bucket-list spots that everyone wants to see. The thing is that the thought of dragging kids around a huge, sun-baked archaeological site can be a little stressful, to be honest. You have pictures in your head of long, winding queues, your kids getting pretty tired, and their eyes glazing over from way too many historical facts. Basically, we’ve all been there with a museum trip that didn’t go as planned. So, we wanted …

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