Pompeii

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14 April 2008

Yesterday was the London Marathon. Today we did our own marathon with an eight hour trip around the ruins of the Roman town of Pompeii which was engulfed by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD. It is a huge and most interesting site with the forum, temples, theatres, an ampitheatre, a market, a brothel (the pictures of this are censored for the blog!), necropolis, baths, gardens and many houses. We would have taken longer but several of the buildings were closed or being renovated.

All the statues and some of the mosaics, frescoes and loose objects have been removed to the Archaeological Museum in Naples. So this will be our destination for another trip later in the week.

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