Naples
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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
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Still no plan
So where the heck were we?? Oh yeah, no plan, no life, etc. Who knew getting Airbnbs to talk to you was so difficult!! Sam has been finding great-looking places and reaching out, but no one replies! “Hi, I want to book your Airbnb for two weeks!” Reply: crickets… why??? Don’t people who list their… Continue reading
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But Where Do We Go Now?!?
Our trip thus far has been tightly choreographed from months ago: Napoli, Catania, Siracusa, Catania, Messina, Palermo, Malta, ????? We left the second half of the trip completely open, figuring we’d return to some place in Sicily now that we sort of knew the lay of the land. But we’re a bit Sicilied-out by now,… Continue reading
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First Night in Napoli
After an extremely long day, it was great to finally dump off all our stuff in our very own hotel room. But we were starving to death, which meant we weren’t quite off the Napoli streets just yet. The hilarious front desk guys loved engaging Sam in Italian–we might be the first American tourists they’d… Continue reading
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Off to Sicily!!
This one is gonna be a doozy!! We’re off on a month-long trip: two weeks in Sicily, a weekend in Malta, and the final two weeks are completely unplanned–just gonna wing it. We’ve never done anything remotely like this before! We made it to the AmEx Escapé Lounge in Cincinnati by 8:00PM. This is a… Continue reading