One of the personal hightlights of the trip was on Monday. We visited the site of Pompei, which was covered with a 7 meter layer of ash after the Vesuvius erupted on August 24 79 BC. Most of the city is still uncovered but parts have been excavated since as early as the 18th century (which ofcourse means a lot of the material has been destroyed by ignorance of archeological methods). We visited restaurations of houses, streets, an old amfitheater (older than the Colisseum in Rome) and some bordellos. A lot of the frescos and statues are now in the Museum in Napels.
