 Our little camp is a little bit messy. I think if I would do the trip again, maybe I would even get a bigger tent. Okay, I better leave him for a little bit longer. Thank you, sweetheart. A few moments later. Good morning guys. Welcome back to our Guinness World Record attempt to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. Good morning, Bumblebee. We are here in the city of Pompeii in Italy and we're just having our breakfast inside the tent because there are so many mosquitoes everywhere. And we picked up some really nice Italian cheese from the supermarket. They actually had the cheese in like giant wheels. So you know that it's like really really good cheese. And then we have some breed cheese as well. Yesterday we had a sightseeing day and we visited the ancient ruins of Pompeii. But I'll tell you guys more about that when we hit the road. So let me show you where we're heading today. So we are here and today we are heading past the city of Naples to a small town called Cereto Laziale. Somewhere around here just outside of Rome. We're heading to Cereto Laziale because our good friend Giulio is living there and it's right next to Rome. So we're going to be spending the weekend with him seeing all the amazing sights that Rome has to offer. Yes, it's about a four hour ride to the town and we still have to pick up everything. It's already 11 o'clock so better hit the road. Let's go. Oh no. Guys, I don't know what's happening here, but they really love all these boots. That is absolutely a disaster. Look at that. Oh no, they're like everywhere. So former apparently ends really love the design of your boots. Yeah, very tasty boots apparently. I don't even know how to get them out to be honest. Yeah, maybe your idea is good. Maybe we put like a piece of cheese just next to the boots and then they'll all come out. Should we try that? I have cookies. Okay, so here's the cookie trail leading out the boot towards the cookie mecca. Come on guys, out you come. Tasty cookies. Come on. That's really nice. 20 minutes later. So it's not really working fast enough so I'm going to take some salt and I'm just going to sprinkle it all inside the boots so that it's very like salty and then they're going to be like, eww, salty and then they're going to leave. Do you think salt helps as well for really smelly boots? It might do. I don't know what it will do to the boots. I want them to think that it's a really terrible place to be. They've got to get out of here. So we're leaving there for a minute. Five minutes later. Okay, so it's mostly gone now. There's still a few of them running around but it's about as good as we can get I reckon. So the rest of them are just going to have to be squished. Sorry guys. Oh let's see if we can turn it on after a day off. No, we can't unfortunately. It's dead again. Okay. Let me try one more time. Nope. Oh damn it. Yeah, we just got all our gear on. Okay, well we're going to have to go and ask somebody then hey. Found someone. Hey, let's see. It's not that long anymore. Please stay alive. Thank you. Bye bye. Nice. All right, there we go. Small hiccup in the morning but we can hit the road. Yeah. I say the morning. What time is it? Oh, it's 12 o'clock probably. I think it's nearly 12 o'clock. Yeah. But anyway guys, this camping here super cool called Spartacus Camping Bungalows. You just walk across the road here and there are the ruins of Pompeii. Here pretty much the entrance to Pompeii is here. These are the ruins right up on this hill. Yeah, exactly. That's how close this place is. How cool is that, hey? But we are going on this road here towards Napoli Roma. Is this the right one? No, it's probably not the right one, is it? Is it automatic? Or is it with a person? I don't know. Please in search card as shown. Oh, there you go. Done. Okay. So here we can see in front Mount Vesuvius. The main reason why Pompeii is still visible today because just under 2000 years ago this volcano erupted and completely engulfed the city of Pompeii covering it in a huge layer of ash and pumice. The city was then buried and because of subsequent eruptions in I think 500 A.D., the city was then further buried and further buried to the point where people forgot that it even existed. Can you believe that a whole perfectly functioned city here suddenly totally forgotten? It's absolutely crazy. So for nearly a thousand years nobody even remembered the name Pompeii or that there was even a city there. It was just a sort of countryside land, just a hill. You couldn't see any of the ruins. Yeah. And then one day I think in the 1500s they were digging to do some construction to build some sort of underground aqueduct system and they came across the ancient walls of the city but it took hundreds of years and it wasn't really until the late 1700s and the 1800s that they really started to excavate the site and realize what they had there. And what they have there is really one of the most incredible Roman sites in the world. A huge city of at the time 11,000 people entirely preserved. All the streets, all the houses, all the bakeries, the laundrets, pretty much everything that you needed to run a city. All of these buildings are preserved and they're preserved to such an amazing detail. You can even still see the frescoes, the paintings on the walls of the people's houses. You can see all of the mosaic flooring. So when you're like walking on the streets of Pompeii it feels like you're just walking in a normal city but actually nobody's been living there for like 2,000 years. Wow really a goosebumps place for sure. Yeah I mean we'd seen Roman ruins in different places so far like in Pamocale but this was just Roman ruins on a massive scale. There was a 20,000 seater amphitheater, there was a marketplace, there were temples. Yeah it was just so interesting to see how advanced the Romans were like they had entertainment, they had like restaurants, they had bakeries, you know they had like laundries. We could read on one side they talked about how they did their laundry and apparently they used a pier. Yeah they used a pier in a big bath where then the slaves apparently stepped on the clothes because the pier was apparently very good to remove all the dirt from the clothes. Can you believe it? It was really really cool to walk around there. I think we walked in total 12 kilometers just up and down the streets and you know what the most incredible thing about it is? This is absolutely crazy but the people who stayed and got caught in the big pyroclastic flow that came down from Vesuvius on the second day of the eruption these people were completely preserved in exactly the positions that they died in in their last moments. The pyroclastic flow apparently came at 70-80 kilometers per hour through the city and the people were effectively preserved in the ash and then over time their body decayed and the bones decayed but what was left was basically a hole which was exactly the outline of their body and the first archaeologists that were excavating the site they noticed that there was sort of these cavities as they were digging down but at first they didn't realize what it was but then one really clever archaeologist he realized that these were the outlines of the bodies preserved in the ash so his idea was to then inject plaster into the cavities and then they got rid of the ash all around and what was left was a perfectly preserved outline of the body and you could see everything the faces the clothes they were wearing and the positions that they were in. Yeah it was really hard touching actually because you could see families as well like there was one example of a mom holding a baby or we saw other people with jars of food or anything like this in their hands so frozen in time it's incredible. Yeah that whole place is just a perfectly preserved frozen in time moment from AD 79 and when you're walking through those streets you really feel like you're transported back there it was a really really special place to visit. Yes of all sites we have visited on this trip I think this is number one for me and I'm not even that interested in the Roman Empire. So for now we're just going to be following this highway for the next 100 miles before turning off onto some smaller roads heading into the countryside for the beautiful little town of Cereto Lasiale. Well I just checked the prices inside here at the rest area and it's like easily 10 euro and more for a meal so I bought some baguette which was like 2 euro 50 and some Italian mortadella. Mortadella Bologna. And then anyway we still have some cheese left over as well so we would just have a picnic outside here. Yummy. That's not a baby belly that's a biker belly I can't even close my trousers anymore. Do you think we have too much cheese? Okay after the trip we're going to stop eating cheese for a bit and we have to start working out. Well I had no idea but here in Italy they have like two different prices for fuel depending on whether you fill it up yourself or if somebody else fills it up for you which they call like Servizio. So it's like 1 euro 94 per litre if you do it yourself or 2 euros 21 if they do it for you. Isn't that crazy hey? That is absolutely crazy. That's absolutely crazy. I mean is it really worth that much for them to fill it up for you? Well we can do about ourselves hey? Absolutely. Okay and we I already have somebody to fill it up for me for free. I think last time we actually went to that one by accident. Yeah. So I think we actually overpaid by a lot without realising it. 30 euro hey? Geez. All right we are coming off of the highway so now let's take on some nice Italian countryside roads. Italy is beautiful so so beautiful. Look at that hey? Wow yeah this is a really nice area. Yeah. Just beautiful winding roads and the hills and loads of olive trees. Look at all these olive trees. Actually we have yet to have olives here. Yeah I don't know in my mind I knew Italy is beautiful but I didn't expect this you know I wasn't prepared for so much beauty. Hey guys editing Oli here whilst we bask in the beauty of rural Italy. I wanted to tell you guys about this video sponsor On Vacation Doctor and their super handy app for people travelling the world like us. The On Vacation Doctor app connects you to top English speaking doctors in any country in the entire world including here in Italy with over a thousand doctors in the Naples region alone. 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Yeah and Julio was one of the awesome people that we met during that trail. He was hiking the trail. We both finished like within a few days of each other and we had a big celebration at the end. Yes and since this actually Julio invited us like two or three times a year to come and visit him in Italy. I don't know why but we always had to miss it because we weren't close enough or we had other plans or whatever reason. Yeah even in our trip around Europe in the camper van we didn't come to Italy and every time Julio was messaging us and he was always disappointed that we never made it to him. We are finally here Julio! What do you think? We've made it finally. It's so cool, really really cool. But Julio is such an awesome guy and it was so nice walking with him camping with him along the way. He even wrote a book about the trail. Yeah it is in Italian but it's really cool because he studied philosophy so it's really really nice just to talk to him you know because he has a lot of ideas, he's a really creative person. So it's going to be really cool to spend the next few days together and explore this beautiful area with a beautiful old friend. And get a shower and a washing machine! Welcome to Saretto L'Aziale. Well look at this town, it's like right on the edge of a cliff. Like so many towns here in Italy hey? Yeah they seem to like building towns on the edge of cliffs. They're like I don't like the flat island, I like the nice view. I'm sorry if my Italian accent offends anyone. Well look at this area. Incredible. Such a nice place Julio lives in. Wow. Julio has sorted us out with an Airbnb for the weekend so here we go. This is Piazza Monte Ruffo. Okay. And apparently we are meeting him somewhere here. Okay look at that hey what a nice place. Are you okay? Yeah very good. Saretto L'Aziale. Saretto L'Aziale. Little village. Saretto L'Aziale. Fantastic. Fantastic. Fantastic. Now we are going to the Airbnb. Okay. You can rest and after that just an easy dinner pizza. That's a good place. This is nice. I like it. Yeah. Okay he's coming and we can wait there. Okay. Cool. It's a castle. It's a tower. It's a tower. It's a castle. That's cool. After dinner we go. Nice. Oh nice. Okay. 70 years old Vespa. Look at that. This is what we want to be riding around Italy on. Wow look at this place. Here is the owner. Ciao ciao. And look at the view out of the window. Look at this. Wow wow wow. And it's got like marvel window sills. Ciao ciao. This place is beautiful. Yes. You are the owner of Cerreto. Exactly. And it's not only the bedroom but it's like a whole apartment. Look. Look. Look. It's got a whole kitchen. What is this? Oh. You can do some sewing. We're not sewing. But Julio says that we're not going to have to use the kitchen because his mother is here. Yes. You are in the country of food you know. Okay. You are my host. I'm so excited. My family host. So we are in really really good hands here in Italy. Yeah. How did you like this? So that's it from us today. We hope you enjoyed the video. If so please give us a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. Share the video with your friends and family. Comment below. See you next time.