I took this picture yesterday at Herculaneum: a detail of a mosaic in one of the town’s villas, the Villa of Neptune and Venus, which was named after a mosaic in the same room as this one. Great though a visit to Pompeii is, I prefer Herculaneum. It’s a much smaller but also a less crowded and more manageable site. Plus, things are generally better preserved there. Spent an hour and a half exploring . The most amazing things were charred beams of wood still surviving.