Saturday 15 May 2010

Day 43

Day 43 Wed 12th May. Ah Napoli.

The local railway line the “Circumvesuviana” (just in case you were to forger your living at the foot of an active volcano) leaves from just beyond the camp entrance and gets us to the centre of Naples in no time at all.
The Central Station is a clamourous building site and the City Its every bit as filthy, chaotic and downright dog gone dangerous as we were expecting.

Rather exciting, we strangely enjoyed it.
The Cathedral is creepy, what with vials of liquefying blood and all that. Yellow stained glass widows caste a urine glow over the interior and that just about says it all.
The Archaeological museum has very cannily nicked all the good stuff from Pompeii.
Inspired by the fantastic sculpture galleries, the fresco paintings and some mosaics from the ruins.

Though most of the mosaic galleries were closed for re-display, Andy is disappointed.
A surprisingly good lunch in a restaurant recommended by the museum bookseller. Busy as hell, the waiter (what a bruiser) threw the menus at the table and immediately demanded our order. Rather rude, even for Naples, we just bust out laughing and so did he. Phew.
Andy has his favourite plate of seafood to date, served with enormous fat rolls of pasta schiaffo.
Our new best friend, scary waiter, warming to his role as host and cultural attaché, mimes it is Italian for slap, a local speciality and we are not going to argue.
Made our wary way back to the station and the relative calm of camping Zeus.
Our car part has arrived and is the wrong part. Maybe tomorrow.















Weve all had days like these. Here come the boys.
























Should have gone to Rigby and Pellar. .Lord but shes a big girl.

1 comment:

  1. Scary italian waiters! Can you understand them? Apparently napolese italian is a bit like a thick glaswegian accent to the uniniated - completely impenetrable!

    Got a big pile of mail to update you on, but will have to wait. Off to Birmingham at crack of dawn tomorrow (Monday) and still have presentation to finish.

    H
    xxx

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