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From: Walt Bilofsky on 22 Sep 2009 00:27 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?
From: sir_scRunge on 22 Sep 2009 01:00 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. Frommer's is written for rich fat Amerikan tourists, best to go with a Michelin guide or Guide Bleu... > Questions: > > 1) Is Naples now a good walking-around city? Worth a couple of days? > Only if you like pickpocets, prostitutes, and a virtual plethora of rubbish... > 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? Isla di Capri...
From: Piero on 22 Sep 2009 02:33 Walt Bilofsky ha scritto: > 1) Is Naples now a good walking-around city? Worth a couple of days? I'm Italian (not from Naples, so, like many Italians, I too love and hate Naples). Naples is a wonderful city: you must be careful, but if you don't need to drive (driving in Naples is TERRIBLE: no rules at all...), and if you pay some care to your goods (don't walk with too many bags, luxury camera, luxury mobile phone or visible money/wallet, you will not have problems. Don't buy anything: many fake goods! But food is wonderful, take a view from the 'Posillipo' hill (reachable by bus and/or funicular) is compulsory! Also the center is very good, so I advice you to give Naples a chance... Maybe you can sleep outside (Pompei, Sorrento) and reach daily Naples by suburban train (Circumvesuviana). Ciao, Piero.
From: Jack Campin - bogus address on 22 Sep 2009 04:59 >> 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. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk> ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts ****** I killfile Google posts - email me if you want to be whitelisted ******
From: bartc on 22 Sep 2009 05:10
Walt Bilofsky wrote: > 1) Is Naples now a good walking-around city? Worth a couple of days? Maybe a couple of hours. Get a train into the central station, walk around a bit to see how crazy the place is, then get out again. There are supposedly some tourist attractions, but I've always given them a miss. -- Bartc |