Buona sera Italia - Naples Day 1
7/14/2009 12:08:00 am
As if I combine from day 1 to day 7, this will be a loooooooooong-as post. I don't even know how in the world I'm going to load the pics and videos up LOL. Perhaps, I'll take my own sweet time for that. In the mean time, hope this is good enough to update all of you about our wacky and wonderful trip. Thought I'd break the post down in bits so that I can post em up steadily and in an organised manner :P
As well as I'm back to normal flickr, I'm back to posting my photos on facebook instead.
Warning: please make sure that you have eaten a decent meal before reading this post as you may feel hungry reading the post :P
1st July:
We left for the airport at like 4.30am! Man, so early so we kinda slept in the plane on the way to Naples. After touchdown, we grabbed the car (Lovely Alfa Romeo hatchback) and it was a challenge for D to drive on the other side of the road, with a manual bikahuna car.
Off we went to look for our accomodation. As we found it, we got stuck in a super tight alley where the gap on each side of the car was less than 5cm. And we were stuck because this old lady didn't want to move her car out. She was constantly yelling at us and creating drama. So this other waiter near the restaurant came out to help. He was a pro. When we drop our stuff and looked for an all night park, we went straight to his restaurant to eat to thank him. I had a nice octopus salad<---- randomly picked because the menu was in italian lol.
Our sexy bulky car for the trip
The alley where the car got stuck
My insalata octopus
As well as I'm back to normal flickr, I'm back to posting my photos on facebook instead.
Warning: please make sure that you have eaten a decent meal before reading this post as you may feel hungry reading the post :P
1st July:
We left for the airport at like 4.30am! Man, so early so we kinda slept in the plane on the way to Naples. After touchdown, we grabbed the car (Lovely Alfa Romeo hatchback) and it was a challenge for D to drive on the other side of the road, with a manual bikahuna car.
Off we went to look for our accomodation. As we found it, we got stuck in a super tight alley where the gap on each side of the car was less than 5cm. And we were stuck because this old lady didn't want to move her car out. She was constantly yelling at us and creating drama. So this other waiter near the restaurant came out to help. He was a pro. When we drop our stuff and looked for an all night park, we went straight to his restaurant to eat to thank him. I had a nice octopus salad<---- randomly picked because the menu was in italian lol.
Our sexy bulky car for the trip
The alley where the car got stuck
My insalata octopus
After lunch, off to wander Naples. One of our friends was such an enthusiast and suggested we climb all the way to the top of the hill to check out a castle. When we arrive, it was closed. Phooey, but we didn't regret it since we manage to view the city from the top ;)
Main city centre area (much nicer at night)
Naples, very colourful city
Main city centre area (much nicer at night)
Naples, very colourful city
Did I mention that the weather through the whole week was between 30-32 with all sun and no rain? Heh.
So we headed back, had a shower, and off we went to look for dinner. Apparently Naples is famous for their cheap pizzas (7 Euro for a large one) and we were recommended to head to this one. But the queue was so long that we gave up and went down the road to the next one.
South Italy is similar to Spain in the sense that they have long lunchbreaks too, so dinner does not normally start till 9pm. By the time we ate, it was about 11pm o.O
Our long awaited dinner, pizzaaaaa
This is how they made them...that's what I call real pizza
So we headed back, had a shower, and off we went to look for dinner. Apparently Naples is famous for their cheap pizzas (7 Euro for a large one) and we were recommended to head to this one. But the queue was so long that we gave up and went down the road to the next one.
South Italy is similar to Spain in the sense that they have long lunchbreaks too, so dinner does not normally start till 9pm. By the time we ate, it was about 11pm o.O
Our long awaited dinner, pizzaaaaa
Italy, Naples - Making pizza from Gjin Ow on Vimeo.
This is how they made them...that's what I call real pizza
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