Napoli Vacations, Napoli Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

I checked out from my hostel in Napoli Mergellina and brought my luggage to the station and left it at the left luggage office. Then i headed to the center - to discover all those places i didn't manage on the previous day. It was really another strange experience of the life in Napoli. Now i know exactly why my italian friends from northern parts of Italy warned me from coming here hahahahaBut it's an interesting stay here in the south...I was walking the Via Umberto I then turned to Duomo a...

Napoli is a place of contradictions and contrasts... in everything and everywhere in the city...And even the simply metro system becomes here untransparent piece of several metro companies which are running their lines separately.Metronapoli (line 1 and 6 and metro-like funiculars) Circumvesuviana (3 and 4) Ferrovie dello Stato (2) Cumana (5,7)Ok, now the story...The line 6 is pretty new which means it's modern, clean and just very nice (although very short and in fact still only partly opene...

Our train ride to Napoli lasted a little over an hour, which surprised me. For some reason I had been under the impression that it would be a much longer trip, perhaps because of the significant gap between Rome and Napoli on the maps I had seen. It could also be that the train I was on was a high-speed one, although if that was the case it was nothing like the "bullet" train in Japan. Regardless, the train was very modern and comfortable and the view of the Italian countryside was very entic...

 We arrived in Napoli fairly late, but just managed to catch the train to our hostel that the Aussie girls on our ferry recommended to us. We wandered the streets for a little bit, and almost passed the unmarked door to our hostel. We later found out from Giovanni (the owner) that he doesn't have a sign because the Mafia demands money from private business owners, so he is a little undercover. He depends on one website and word of mouth for business. Cool, eh? Anyways, we finally found t...