As I already mentioned, the ancient place was crowded like a modern city center. Sometimes this was annoying...
but eventually we melted in and even enjoyed the refreshment facilities, in this case to indulge in a tasty Italian cappucino, on a stone which certainly saw a lot of visitors over the last couple of millenniums.
Some places like the central Forum looked a bit patched together, it was not so easy to imagine a real city here.
On other parts of the city these imagination became quite easy. While looking at these findings I almost smelled wine or olive oil kept within. 
The most gripping and touching items were the statues, which were casts of the hollow spaces the victims left behind in the volcanic ashes. 
Many of them are in a position which hints to the agony of their final minutes. I hesitated to take pictures, at last they are dead people. Hope they'll forgive me..may they rest in peace...
This is a typical road of Pompeii, there are many like this one.. Some of them, like this, are closed on one end because of works in progress (at least the signs say so), so one has to turn and try the next. For some time it felt more like a maze than a touristic attraction.
But there are many highlights as well. One of the most famous is the Villa of the Mysteries with its famous wall paintings where the meaning is still unresolved. I resolved it neither, it's still up for guessing...
Another highly frequented house is the House of the Vettii, which it mainly known for the painting on the upper right side of the entrance room (click on picture for a large version).
Yes, someone was working on the site as well, although we didn't see anyone else besides these two young Italian female students-I guess they were. (the picture is not really close, they were even more attractive than the old city ;-) 
And for the rather large facilities: the area for the Gladiators....
...the theater...
...and the local sports stadium.
Between the impressive buildings were no less impressive trees, a hundred meters tall (well, 50 meters:-). I don't know the names, but they gave the place a fascinating background. 
