Hi everyone, Some great blogs to allow us to picture your trip very well and lovely to see the pics with the boys looking so happy and even slightly idiotic, which is cheeringly normal. I sense the disappointment about Pompeii and I do hope you manage to get there, but hey, if you don’t, it’s not going anywhere in a hurry, you can put it in your Bucket list... Enjoy Florence and be sure to take some pics of you all holding up that pesky Leaning Tower...
Heather W
I suspect Eddie might already have (unsuccessfully) tried to defend it to Harry, but Naples is one of the highlights of Europe! The area around the train station doesn't make a good first impression. Unfortunately nor does the train trip to Pompeii (but that just makes Pompeii even better) or the area around the archeological museum
ReplyDeleteBut if you DO get stuck in Naples again today, 5 things to do within 100 yards of each other:
1. Walk the length of via dei Tribunali, the decumanus maior (I know I'm risking things in present company moving away from English) of ancient Neapolis. And it's still part of a noisy chaotic city of 3m people (are there any cities where the exact Roman grid pattern is still in use today, rather than just being a tourist attraction?).
2. Visit the Duomo. Go down into the remains of the Roman and Greek buildings on the site. See the oldest baptistry in Western Europe.
3.Visit the San Lorenzo Maggiore church and walk down below it to see scavi of the original Graeco-Roman city, including a road lined with ancient shops.
4. See Caravaggio's Seven Acts of Mercy up the road (with not another tourist in the building - try that in Florence).
5. Go to Cappella Sansevero and see Sanmartino's sculpture Cristo Velato - Jesus covered by a veil extraordinarily realistic.
And then have some more pizza in the city that invented it.
Enough of a rant. But hopefully you get to Pompeii today, which is almost as exciting as Naples itself.
Masters, you are doing a brilliant job leading these clever men and please all keep up the evocative blogs.
Richard Scoular