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From: d4g4h4 on 22 Sep 2009 16:33 Ken Blake <kblake(a)this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:22:36 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, > _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: > > > Martin <me(a)address.invalid> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:59:07 +0100, Jack Campin - bogus address > > > <bogus(a)purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > >>> Is Naples now a good walking-around city? Worth a couple of days? > > > >> Don't buy anything: many fake goods! > > > > > > > >Some of us actually WANT to buy fake goods. > > > > > > Hurray for sanity. > > > > Buying any kind of cheap tat on holiday always seems insane to me. I > > find it far more convenient to buy cheap clothes at home. > > > With one exception, I agree with you. Buying things like cheap socks > and underwear on vacation and throwing them away rather than lugging > dirty clothes around in your suitcase can be a very convenient, > inexpensive way to travel. I can see that, though I haven't found it a terrible way to travel, and on our recent trips, we've only taken hand luggage, including a 10 trip to Italy... -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Piero on 22 Sep 2009 16:47 Jack Campin - bogus address ha scritto: > Some of us actually WANT to buy fake goods. Yes, if they are fake that seems true also out of the box, but in old times they sold electronics equipments (VCR, radios, Cameras) in same_as_new sealed boxes with inside only bricks or stones to simulate weight. Ciao, Piero.
From: d4g4h4 on 22 Sep 2009 16:58 Jack Campin - bogus address <bogus(a)purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> Is Naples now a good walking-around city? Worth a couple of days? > > Don't buy anything: many fake goods! > > Some of us actually WANT to buy fake goods. (Last time I went > to Istanbul, a friend back home was very keen for me to buy her > a fake Rolex - unfortunately it turned out that they were much > harder to find than they used to be). > > Heck, I'd even start wearing Armani if I could find something > with the logo spelt wrong. It's a long time since I sought clothes with brand names, misspelled or not.... -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Piero on 22 Sep 2009 17:05 Walt Bilofsky ha scritto: > Grazie, Piero. Yes, we are always careful with valuables and aware of > other people when walking in large cities. > > Would it make sense to stay two or three nights in the historic center > of Naples? Staying in Sorrento, counting travel time and waiting, it > would take about 2 1/2 hours to go to Naples and back. I'm sorry. I live far from Naples (500Km north), and I was there only few times. In recent times I slept in Pompei one time, and I was there to take a ferry to Sicily and on the way back one week after. So I don't know how good is to sleep in historic center. I think is good and without problems. I remember very good to buy a daily ticket for public transports (Metro, light rail, funiculars). Look at the traffic: a nightmare for every driver not from Naples... No rules: red lights and stops are totally ignored and the worst trouble for a car there is the broken clakson: they horn continuously. ....But the landscape is wonderful... Absolutely climb up to Posillipo hill on a clear day. In Naples there's a flavour of mafia called 'Camorra', but they never create problems for normal people. The only problems, as I said before, are pickpockets (so leave all valuables in Hotel) and fraud masters. The 'Napoletani' (people from Naples) are known everywhere in Italy as 'smart' (maybe ... too smart). Buon viaggio! Ciao, Piero.
From: Piero on 22 Sep 2009 17:14
Ken Blake ha scritto: > I love Capri, where there are lots of things to see, and would highly > recommend it if you won't be there during a very busy very touristy > time of year. Very good Capri, but is also very (too) high priced. Is very small, so I think is a good practice to visit on a daily trip from Naples: take a boat in the early morning and come back in the late evening. I think far better for stay Ischia, with many cheap hotels (not cheap because low quality, but cheap because they are many and often not full, so they have bargains) and many thermal springs & SPAs. Ciao, Piero. |