Napoli, city of contrasts! On our last vacation time before we headed home, we ventured to southern Italy. Forewarned that, "...evil lurking at every corner--wenches, gigolos, and confidence men abound!" :) But it was not too sketchy, and a lot of it was very beautiful. Early in the morning, we embarked on the first of two trains to reach our destination. The regional trains are much cheaper, so we took one from Bomarzo to Roma, and then a few hours later from Roma to Napoli stopping frequently on the way. On the train there were some children sitting across the aisle from us. One little boy with an extremely stretchy face made the most crazy expressions. Both kids were kinda pudgy even though their parents were slim and kid with the elastic face was eating smarties,
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