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On Wednesday, we continued our run into the really accident world with a visit to Pompeii. Buried under ash following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the city was forgotten until being rediscovered in the 1700s. Excavations and restorations have been going on since. However, the city itself
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Doors in Naples were a bit boring (comparatively speaking), but they did have lots of cool entry arches/gateways leading to the inner courtyards of many buildings.
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Here are some more things we saw (mostly on Tuesday) in fascinating, gritty, busy, chaotic, overstimulating Naples! Bookshops (all within a few steps of our AirBnb)... Food shops... Side streets leading off Via Toledo; so interesting to just wander... Galleria Umberto I (a very fancy shopping mall)... People doing their
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On Tuesday, our first full day in Naples, we did a LOT of exploring — we walked more than 11km! — but the absolute highlight was Napoli Sotterranea (Underground Naples). This was a guided one-hour tour of (a small section of) the 450km network of aqueducts, reservoirs and tunnels under the city
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Welcome to Naples! Today involved an early wakeup and a two-hour drive to Dublin Airport through this gorgeous fog... ... then saying farewell to the orderly identical houses and bright green fields of Ireland... ... and hello to noisy, chaotic Naples! B and I have been to Italy a couple of times