Amalfi and Rome Arriving in the big old Italian boot from Greece proved to be a long day. It started with walk, bus, ferry, bus, walk, train, walk, train, train, collapse! And arriving at Naples (Naplio) late at night with no booked accommodation is pretty much a don’t in the guidebooks. If Naples is home to the mafia, guns and drugs then the train station is like the cesspool in the middle. Getting off the train we walked through drunks, homeless, drug addicts, prostitutes, etc and that was still in the train station! Finding out that there is no way to the Amalfi Coast at that hour we found a budget ‘hotel’ and crashed, waking to the beautiful smell of pizza (supposedly invented in Naples - maybe it’s only constructive claim to fame). The next morning
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