First full day in Naples, so I took the train around the bay to visit the wonderfully evocative ruins at Pompeii.

It's an amazing place, a whole city was wiped out in AD79 when the Mighty Vesuvius, standing watch over the city like a slumbering giant, took offence and covered the place in ash and gas, spewed out from deep within the earth's belly. The population didn't stand a chance and died where they fell, their only legacy a body imprint in the solidified ash which, 2000 years later gives form to their memories.

The houses, temples and shops stand much as they did in the Augustine age, giving a sense of what a real roman city was like.