Hotel Palazzo Decumani Naples

Since it was raining in Sorrento I decided to skip the Amalfi coast and Capri. With my extra time I wanted to hit the pizza place Di Matteo that was supposedly better than Da Michele. You know me, I'm an equal opportunity pizza eater. I have no loyalties except to whomever serves up the best pie.<br><br>The reason why I hadn't tried Di Matteo previously was because I thought it was only take-away. I walked all around the perimeter of the restaurant before and couldn't see any ...

... Italian name changers. But I can't keep which is which straight. And I'm not in the mood to look it up. Mea culpa.) Anyway, it was spectacular. I opted for a guided tour for 10euro rather than the audio guide for 6.50euro. But it was taking forever for the guy to amass the necessary 6-7 people. Finally we had 5 people and I had been waiting about 25 minutes. I stood by him for about 5 minutes and then said, I'm doing the audio guide ...

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Stayed in a small town south of Naples (Vico Enquense) which was right on the water (in a rather remote cove). We rented an apartment for the week which was part of a hotel complex. At the beginning of our trip, we met Tony (from Jersey City) who was from Vico and told us where to get the best pizza and his wife was from Sorrento (which is just south of Vico) so we had some ...

... cross and then followed them.<br><br>The CitySightseeing buses were a great way to view the city in a short period of time. As the bus navigated around the city streets, we noticed that the car of choice was the smart car. Good thing! I could not imagine driving anything larger in this city! Parking was a premium everywhere! Anywhere you could find enough space the size of a throw rug, you ...

... br>What a difference once you get into the hotel! The first impression was definitely deceiving. Our room was quite beautiful and we were glad that we didn't hightail it out of there. Best of all, it was a great location being only minutes from the museum and from the old town.<br><br>We decided to make the most of our night here so we went straight to the museum as it was on the list of must-do things in Naples. I can't say that this really captured our attention ...

... are staying near the train station is filled with garbage. A third of Naples is unemployed technically speaking, but that third is apparently all street vendors, selling everything from vegetables to Iphones to designer bags and clothes. While trying to find our hostel this morning, police were raiding the market to find illegal vendors (it seemed Nike vendors were being targeted). Everyone gets up in ...

Decided to head down to naples for a couple of days because we really wanted a couple of days of nice sun and we'd get to see pompei as well. Was kind of expecting naples to be some bit of a tourist resort because of pompei, probably should have looked up some bit about the place before going there. The place is a total dump, literally, the dirt on the streets is unreal. We got really good weather there so went to the beach. First beach we went to was fairy dodgy. We really looked ...

... eventual catastrophe. Evidence of a large trade in grain and bread is evidenced by the industrial size pistrinum (bakery) where grain was ground and goods baked. Further evidence that this was a large trade area are found in the numerous inns for visitors as well as the thermopoliums, a sort of Roman snack bar for quick food. But Pompeii was not all about politics and work. Known as the city of passions, the walls are also full of graffiti devoted to love and sex. In fact what we would ...