Like Pisa, Pompeii was a “sure why not” stop It’s close, so okay. And, like Pisa, Pompei was a whim that was a Wow! Unexpected, it was truly moving. We arrived in Pompeii 20 minutes from Central Naples on the aptly named Circumvesuviana commuter rail. Mt. Vesuvius looming out one window and the Bay of NaplesContinue reading “Blast From the Past”
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Naples, there’s a darkness in this edgy town
Since we had just left Rome, it was hard not to compare Rome and Naples, two cities whose present is so imbued with their past. Naples (Napoli in Italian) had a gritty underdog feel to it. Southern Italy, poorer and less cosmpolitan, has always been in the shadow of the more prosperous northern part ofContinue reading “Naples, there’s a darkness in this edgy town”
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