A quick trip to Naples

Last week, our family took a rare trip away.  To the casual observer, it could have been seen as a holiday.  However, fact it was really a business research trip in disguise, for we were visiting the Naples region to examine the influences that the Roman remains would have had on Harold Peto's work and his design motivation - it is believed that he visited the area a number of times.

It was fascinating and not a little surprising to see quite so many similarities so easily, between the realisation of Peto's vision at Iford and the Roman design influences of 2000 years ago.  Over the coming days I'll be writing up our trip on the blog, to illustrate some of the most interesting features we noted.  However what was most clear was that we needed a lot longer, and this calls for another trip some day: what a pity!

For now, though, here's a photograph of Vesuvius towering above the forum at Pompeii, showing why February is such a great time to go to these places - there was almost nobody there!