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My first historical travel tour is out now. 'Discovering Pompeii' takes visitors on a journey down the Via dell Abbondanza, one of Pompeii’s main streets, allowing them to experience the day to day life of the Campanian town before its destruction by Vesuvius in 79AD.

Gardens, gladiators, graffiti and politics are all features of the app, as is roman nightlife, an inner city winery and a high class leisure centre. You’ll discovers the homes and businesses of every social class, which gods the Pompeian’s worshipped and what they believed. Find out how the city was supplied with water and why exactly were stepping stones necessary to cross the road.

You’ll also meet some of the people who lived and worked along the Via. There’s Julius Polybius, politician and family man, Asellina, tavern owner and potential madame and Paquius Proculus, the nouveau riche chief magistrate.

Published by Crimson Bamboo as part of the RAMA travel app and produced by Past Preservers, the tour makes a great guided tour if you are visiting Pompeii. I hope it’s a useful resource for Pompeii even if you are not. At the very least, I hope readers find it as much fun to read as it was to write. It’s packed with illustrative pictures, maps and plans. My thanks go to Peter Clements of  '79AD’ website for permission to use some of his house plans designed using Mainstreet GIS.

The tour is available for use on Ipad and IPhone and costs $2.99. See the RAMA Facebook page for details. Or visit  http://bit.ly/iTunesRama.

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