Naples

Climbed Mt Vesuvius yesterday morning, the walls of the crater are vertical and over 150 feet deep. With each earthquake a little more rock falls down, so the bottom looks like a huge gravel pit. We did see one steam vent which made the air smell like sulfur but no lava. The mountain itself is around 4000 feet tall, with very little vegetation at the top, so we had a perfect view of the storm that rolled in. Over 30 lightning bolts (once 5 at a time) hit Naples before we decided to scurry back down.

Pompeii was pretty interesting too. The Roman houses were built with a central garden and rooms all around. Every floor was covered in beautiful marble mosaics and the walls with fresco paintings. The house we toured was probably 40 by 100, no windows but still quite nice. Yeah, they were all rich.