Trip down south

I had a customer meeting the other week in Potenza, Basilicata:


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Five hours of meeting in return for 10 hours of train travel - cant really say that public transportation in the southern parts of Italy is the best.

But the train was okay. Even if I had a compatibility problem with the window. It had a metal bar going across the window, which gave me two possibilities if I wanted to enjoy the landscape; either sitting on my luggage as a huge baby chair or lying down in the seat, neither of which were really comfortable...



I had brought my old pocket camera, which was top of the top in 2003 but now is both slow and not too sharp in the pictures. So when I passed the aqueducts I was almost too late



At the left side of the picture you can glimpse one of the aqueducts which supported ancient Rome with water, back in the days when it was the centre of the world.

Aqueducts with boiling water was supposedly some of the first signs of warning back in year 79 AD. when the suspected super Vulcano Vesuvio covered Pompii and area with many meters of ashes.



That day everything seems quiet enough. According to Wikipedia it is today regarded as one of the most dangerous vulcanos in the world, due to the fact that there is more than 3.000.000 people living almost on top of it.

After passing Napoli, and Salerno I did start feeling like I wanted to sit on my bag. Both my sweet girlfriend and my colleague had told me many scary stories about how the different types of gangs would get on the train only to rob poor defenceless people.

Nothing happened though, and we arrived to the horrible town of Potenza, without any problems.