Describing Napoli in words would take me, well, maybe a whole book.
Napoli is crazy. Napoli really has those loud, funny, chubby Italian bursting
out of a family dinning room or a greasy pizzeria. Napoli has the most
colorful, lively Italian folk you could imagine. The old city is
beautiful in it's architecture but also in it's human dwellers. People
actually crowed these incredible streets, living in scruffy dens and
small alley houses. Peeking out of cloth-lined windows and TV lighten
dinning rooms which spill out to the street. Some of the people walking around! wow!
it would be too easy but inevitable to characterize them as
something you'd see in a fifties Italian movie (with the
cigar, cap and white jacket hanging over the shoulder) or a old mobster
movie. One of these old mobster guy introduced himself to me on the
street, as I was buying a pair of socks. He approached me with his
heavy NY Italian accent. "Yeah, I like them Jews, descent people you
know. I did a lot of business with them back in NY. shipping, stuff
like that. I like the US but the food here is better. I am 80 years old
but I --- like a rabbit". Those were his departing words. "Enjoy your
time!" he said as he strolled up the alley. I later tried to imagine
what kind of life that guy most of had. It would probably make a good,
yet cheesy, movie.
I stayed with Tzvi Tal and his flat mates, very nice people and talented artists.
I will move on towards Pompeii tomorrow, or the next day.
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