Italia
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Typical Days in Napoli
Our Airbnb is great, big space, patios, INSANE views, but dang is it inconvenient! If we want to walk for food, there are like three meh options, otherwise it’s taxis. Napoli has over a million people but only two metro lines: I am convinced the taxi union has successfully fought expanding the metro for many… Continue reading
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Capri back to Napoli
We spent the morning happily wandering down side streets at random, looking for an eventual lunch spot. Finally found one but it was on a surprisingly busy street, especially considering the street was all of five feet across. We sat at our narrow outside table and watched the insane scooters & motorcycles & little trucks… Continue reading
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Day in Capri!
(Notes from Oct 27 2024) Are we getting sick? Been feeling off, hungry at the wrong times, something just seems slightly wrong… finally, at the front desk, we figured it out: the Europeans just had their time change and so everything is an hour off!! The man at the front desk is very concerned for… Continue reading
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First Night on Capri
Remember the famous song (Sinatra sings it, as do many others) about the Isle of Capri? I’ve been working on alternate lyrics: thus far, my new verse ends with “Diarrhea on the Isle of Capri” but I can’t figure out the lines leading up to it!! Maybe “Then I dared her to pull on my… Continue reading
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Random Weekend Trip
We woke up and walked down the street to the small cafe for a bit of breakfast–we finally figured out to order two coffees (both for me) to save time. It’s Saturday morning and we have a weekend free—why not head to the Isle of Capri! (Notice how I made that rhyme?) Finding the right… Continue reading
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Dinnertime in Napoli
After our harrowing 1984 experience with the airport bureaucrats, we are quite hungry for dinner! But first, we have to somehow make it to dinner… We were too wiped to want to deal with the trek all the way back up the hill, so we wimped out and got a cab… sixty seconds later I… Continue reading
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New Clothes?!?
Oh crap I can’t BELIEVE what a lousy job I did with pix today!!! Anyway… days ago lovely Air Italia eventually emailed they had miraculously discovered our lost bag… Sam tried to engage them by email but they eventually stopped responding. Taking an educated guess, we decided to finally hunt down the Air Italia lost… Continue reading
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Let’s Check Out the Castle!
We stopped at a likely-looking place for some refreshments after the giant hot trek, turns out Europe is really getting into Halloween, honestly it’s a bit disconcerting Continue reading
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Our Final AirBnB of the Trip
We are just a bit tired of wandering around, so Sam decided we should splurge a bit at the end of the trip and get a great apartment for our final two weeks in Napoli–I did not argue one bit! So like everything, there are pluses & minuses… the pros of this place are amazing… Continue reading
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Another Transition
We were a bit in limbo, but hurrah Sam has found us an AirBnB to last our entire time in Napoli! Before that, we have one more night on the familiar east side, still at our comfortable Hotel San Pietro. My photos are a bit scrambled somehow, so the following will be a bit random,… Continue reading