Blogs from Naples, Campania, Italy, Europe - page 24

The directions to the hostel should have been simple. It turned out to basically be on the main square across from the train station. However, the searched for over half an hour because the directions involved a vering, passing streets, and right, and left, and another left. We were helped by a strange toothless old italian man. He (probably having seen this many times) pointed to the correct street for us. All we had heard was that Naples was a dirty city were you are more likely to be pickpocketed than enjoy yourself.... but the odd toothless man helped us, so the place is fine by me. We then hit up the archeological musuem (best part, Pompei mosaic remains.... particularly a special wing called the "secret room" containing pornographic art from the walls of Pompeis citizens... ... read more

Hello all! What a weekend, Hope everyone at home is well, heard its freezing there! Jes and I visited Naples this past weekend, our first weekend excursion! Good news is weekend trips will only get better. Not that we didnt have fun, we certainly did, but Naples wasnt exactly what we had imagined. The weather was less than stellar on friday, cold and rainy all day but we amused ourselves in the Archeological Museum most of the day and found a wonderful restaurant for lunch. (Naples really does have the best pizza!) Saturday was significantly nicer so we got to walk around and really experience the city. Unfortunatly, 'experiencing the city' included beautiful turn-of-the-century architecture completely covered in graffiti, wide open promenades full of dog poo and homeless, and piazza's packed with people of all shapes ... read more

Took the train today from Venezia to Napoli! Met up with Melania and Nonna. Was late to the train station but luckily they were still there. Great meals and good company. Its nice to be part of a family over here!... read more

although you gotta learn to think like a neopolitan (?)... I caught on soon enough, I think. it happened as I was waiting with about 30 other people to cross a street.... the cars were such like a tributary of a river feeding steadily into a larger river. no one dared attempt to cross- so there we all were, sort of paralized, until a man with a pair of rubber boots up to his knees with a pizza box in his hand, nonchanlantly walks out into the street without looking. It was sort of like Jesus walking on the water... then I thinks... hey, this isn't Kern County, and those arn't milking boots.... he's a fisherman !! And yeahh, he knew how to 'go with the flow' in Napoli... read more

September 23 Today we went into Naples. We said good-bye to our beautiful, movie-star hotel. First we had to climb up to the top to take pictures. It was even more amazing from the top! We started off in Naples at the Napoli Museo Archeologico Nazionale. This was probably one of my favorite museums yet. It was so cool and really well designed. It had some amazing collections, including a temporary exhibit on the riches found in Pompeii. It always amazes me to see things that survive centuries. We got permission to go to the famous “Secret Cabinet” there. Everyone was making fun of me because I had asked Emilio to take us there because I had heard about it, and I really was just curious, not for a pervy reason. But basically the “Secret ... read more