Pompeii

It's rather late, so I physically cannot write much, but I went to Pompeii today. Very cool.

I have to look up the following fact, overheard from the mouth of a tour guide: Vesuvius was ten thousand feet tall before the eruption and three thousand feet after it. That's unbelievable, but I really want to believe it.

Train to Rome tomorrow morning with three girls from London I just met in the hostel. I'm supposed to protect them from predatorial Italians. Do I look tough?