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From: tile on 24 Sep 2009 04:13 Walt Bilofsky wrote: > We have five nights / four days to spend in the Naples / Amalfi Coast > area before boarding a ship in Sorrento. In the past we've been to > Pompei, and to Amalfi twice on day trips. > > We were planning to just skip Naples, but Frommer's guide raves about > how the historic center has been cleaned up, and the crime situation > greatly improved. > > Questions: > > 1) Is Naples now a good walking-around city? Worth a couple of days? > > 2) Where should we spend two or three nights on the Amalfi Coast - > Amalfi (where we've already been), Sorrento (where we'll walk around > anyway our last day), or someplace else? Naples is one of the most beautiful towns in Italy you willl need more than a couple of days to visit all castles/palaces/Chruches/museums and so on pls note there is a Naples card enabling you to have huge discounts on Museums and Trasnports. There is also a special bus (Red bus .. Musei) that will take only the people in possession of this card to the different palces of interest the Reggia di Caserta is also worth a visit Do not forget Naples was the Capital town of a State with a King army and navy
From: Andy Pandy on 24 Sep 2009 04:24 "Walt Bilofsky" <bilofsky(a)toolworks.com> wrote in message news:5mjgb59bi8i5k7h0suknkajr70lb49tlnq(a)4ax.com... > 1) Is Naples now a good walking-around city? Worth a couple of days? The archelogical museum is worth going for alone, it full of exhibits from Pompeii and Herculaneum (if you went round Pompeii you probably saw holes in the walls and floors where they removed painting & mosaics to take to the museum We found Naples an incredibly friendly place the 2 days we were there, maybe because we had kids with us. On the buses and trains people would offer help if we looked lost, old ladies would offer the children biscuits, the cafes were friendly and incredibly cheap (IIRC we paid about EUR15 for 4 massive pizzas with wine and cokes). Even though our Italian was virtually non existant. We went to a kiddies play area and the local kids looked frightening but they didn't push and shove as much as they do in the UK. Crossing the roads was by far the most dangerous thing about the place! But one of the people in our hotel got his Rolex snatched off his wrist within 10 minutes of stepping off the train! I think there's a moral somewhere there. -- Andy
From: Andy Pandy on 24 Sep 2009 04:26 "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1j6gxqd.bc5l0r4sz2rnN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk... > Martin <me(a)address.invalid> wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:06:46 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, >> _the_ >> chancellor (*)) wrote: >> >> >Martin <me(a)address.invalid> 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. >> >> >> >> I got better quality imitation Lacoste in Turkey for a fraction of the >> >> Dutch price. >> > >> >I'm not impressed by cheap imitation anything because I don't do brands. >> >> I'm not out to impress. > > It really does seem that that's _all_ you try to do. Bye. He never succeeds though... -- Andy
From: Andy Pandy on 24 Sep 2009 04:31 "tim....." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:7hrus1F2t4f66U1(a)mid.individual.net... > > "Jack Campin - bogus address" <bogus(a)purr.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > news:bogus-3E4443.09590622092009(a)news.albasani.net... >>>> 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. > > But the Italian authorities don't like you to do so. > > Prepare yourself for a 5000 Euro fine if caught with them. And that's no exaduration[1], IIRC some Danish woman got fined EUR 10,000. [1] I know it's spelled wrong but my useless spell checker only offered me words like ejaculation as an alternative! -- Andy
From: Giovanni Drogo on 24 Sep 2009 09:38
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, tile wrote: > Do not forget Naples was the Capital town of a State > with a King army and navy uh ... some of those kings had nicknames like "il re lazzarone" (the lazy peasant king), "il re bomba" (unclear whether he was fat, or because he bombed people) or "Franceschiello" (little Francis) .... the army had the derogatory name of "esercito di Franceschiello" (little Francis' army). A metropolitan legend tells that soldiers could not tell their right foot from the left, and therefore had one of the shoes covered with fur, and were ordered to march "co' pilo / senza o' pilo / co' pilo ..." (with fur, no fur, with fur ....) .... the navy is renowned for the other metropolitan legend of a special command "facite ammuina" (to be used in case of inspections to simulate busy activities; there was a written explanation which, translated, means more or less : who is on the front goes to the back, who is on the back goes to the front, who is on top goes down, who is on the bottom goes up, all passing through the same hole ; who has nothing to do, moves here and there) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nospam(a)mi.iasf.cnr.it is a newsreading account used by more persons to avoid unwanted spam. Any mail returning to this address will be rejected. Users can disclose their e-mail address in the article if they wish so. |