Mount Vesuvius

So after a fairly hectic 24 hours or so (got the plane fine but TSP managed to forget his carry-on bag - very glad I had held on to boarding passes and passports! Then on arrival in Italy at around 10pm we struggled to find our b&b in the dark and there was no signage...) we have made it to Pompeii!!!
Had a look around the modern part, although nothing much exciting to note. We were going to do the Mount Vesuvius walk but it was just far too hot for us to consider!
The tourist information then told us it was free to go into the historical Pompeii sight today so even though we have a ticket for it already this meant we could go twice and hopefully see more. Very interesting and rather moving the parts we did see and I'm looking forward to the rest tomorrow. Became highly atmospheric as well when a thunder storm started and then chucked it down. TSP and I seemed to be the only people not to freak out about this.

Anyway this is the view from our hotel room. Not bad.