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Just in time for the summer
Its actually quite daunting to realise you are standing on a surface, not only above the shoreline but above the level of the houses of Herculaneum. The next baffling thought is to look around at the four story apartment blocks that all but surround the site and wonder at the hubris of man!
very very odd it has to be said