Sauce Magnusson

The speed trains are great with monitors telling you how fast you're going (> 200 km/hr).
 The train from Naples to Pompeii uses the Circumvesuviana, on the Naples-Serrento line. The train is often extremely busy, since there are so many tourists on it. We got smushed a little bit, but if you push yourself away from the door, you can get some space.

An entrance to the ruins is very close to the train station:
 From the door by the train station you will see first a more open area that is fenced off. This is a temple to Venus.
The best part about the site is that most of it is original:
They've placed statues along main causeways but for the most part, it feels original:
They of course cleared everything of rubble, artefacts and the vacant spaces where bodies decomposed:
But they still show the bodies of people trapped during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius:
The original excavators decided to move everything to a central storage area:
There you can see how much the ancient Romans relied upon amphoras:
Like us they also had dogs:
The original excavators filled vacancies left behind decayed bodies with plaster:
And moved them to the central area:
But it seems like they are trying to recreate some areas, and will be moving them back:
The city doesn't have any of the original wood left, but you can imagine floors & roofs:
Large Roman arches still stand:
And warehouses probably used for grain storage are there:
As you walk along the streets you can see vestiges of a once great city:
But it's not too high:
Still you can see the complexity of the site:
And you can see how much dirt has been layered over the city:
Here's what used to be one of the entrances:



Throughout the town you can enter various buildings, often decorated with floor tiles:

A sexy lady:
A selfie:
Some colors are brighter than others:
It's amazing how free you are to just wander around:
Now they have some major construction going on in half of the town:
But it still leaves so much to see it's not a big deal:
You can tell some houses were richer than others:
I assume it cost a lot to make decorations:
Intricate tiles:
This one almost looks perfect:
Here they've recreated a garden and roofs (most roofs were destroyed by the volcano):

Plenty of floors were patterned:
Here's probably the house shrine, or where they put their keys:
You can see signs of life throughout the town too, like these millstones:
And this pizza oven (it is Italy, right?):
Here's another temple:
Where they worshipped palm trees:
Tiny tiles:
You can see some grain boundaries:
This was a cool one:
Here's an intricate one:
This is in the house of the faun:
Ave also spelt Have, means Hello or Welcome!
Here's an old well, used for naked wrestling orgies:
Sexy photo:
Selfie:
Outside the baths:
Intricate plaster designs were everywhere:
The whole walls were presumably used:
You can see an old locker room:
Some super artwork:
Germanic tribes even bathed their:
The floors were raised with coals laid underneath to heat the water:
Several different rooms are their:
An oculus to provide light (and perhaps remove smoke):

They also have paintings describing the various positions:
Not my favorite, but to each their own:
Doggie style:
Reverse cowgirl:
I don't know what this one is:
See old table stands:
And old paintings... even ancient Italians used their hands a lot:
Here's a submerged patio:
This was from what amounted to a fast-food restaurant, just outside the city center:
People would work in the main square, and buy their lunches there:
Here's along the outside of the city, where there are a lot of crypts:
You can see a large palaestra where they would learn Greek wrestling:
And a large amphitheatre:
It's on the outskirts of the town:
You can still enter the amphitheatre but the palaestra was closed:
It is a very old example of Roman style amphitheatres:
You can't go up onto the stands though:
So, after a long day of walking it's time to go home...
No access to some places!
I saw this guy and thought it was a good one: