Napoli aka: Naples

A good base for visiting Pompeii and Capri.

Do not arrive by train at night if you aren’t absolutely sure you know the most direct route to your hotel. If you’ve got guts, you can get a ride in a taxi. Walking around with luggage, looking lost, at night, in Napoli isn’t very wise or fun.

Don’t get in a taxi!!!! It was the most terrifying experience of my life (minus the metro being shut down in Roma in the am only to have a sea of people at the bottom of a not stopping escalator)the driver cut lanes, hopped curbs (he kicked us out of the car at one point because he had beached it while trying to get over to the railed bus side to cut traffic – as in we could have been stuck on the tracks). Luckily we had a camera that did video in tow…as our reactions are permanently documented- and he sure did get us to our destination fast.

Definitely gonna go again – 2 days was too short to see/do much, but nice trip nonetheless.

My family is from outside of Naples. In order to get my Italian citizenship I need to go track down a bunch of birth, death and marriage certificates in a town hall I’m told probably burned down in a village whose entire population consists of people I’m related too. It looks a little unlikely at this point, but I’m being hopeful (: