Well, for one thing their pizza is by far the best! It's a simple pie...usually nothing too complicated. Yet, it focuses on what makes a pizza a pizza. For a pizza to be a true Napoleatano pizza it has to meet certain requirements such as being cooked in a woodfired oven. John and I ate pizza two nights in a row because it was so good (not too mention extremely affordable?). The first night we stuffed ourselves at a place called Borgo Antico with bruschetta, pizza (1 whole pizza for each of us) and a bottle of wine. After hour and a half of being lost, roaming the streets of Napoli, we made it to our hotel room stuffed and exhausted. After that, getting lost seemed to become a habit of ours.
The second night we went to a famous pizza place in Napoli that I had heard wonderful things about. Da Michele's only serves two kinds of pizza because they are just that good. The marinara pizza was simple: sauce, oregano, garlic. The margherita, a pizza legend in Napoli, was just as good: sauce, buffalo mozzerella and basil. The place is really just a whole in the wall. It's not romantic at all because you're seated next to strangers at wooden tables lined up like a cafeteria. Pizzas are flying in and out of the woodfired oven, as the waiters and pizza chefs yell at each other for the next order. Before you know it, a pizza pie is plopped down in front of you and with a fork and knife, you're almost expected to eat the whole thing (and we did...). Yet, despite the unformal, uber-casual setting, the people (even the locals) still line up outside, waiting for a table or their pizza-pie to go. And the service is prompt...we probably were seated and done eating in less than hour. Let's just say the guys at Da Michele's know how to do pizza and know how to do it well.
Okay, so you're probably thinking to yourself, "Will this girl please stop talking about pizza?!?!". Well...yes. Although I do secretly hope that I made your mouth water for a big slice of cheesy pizza, there are other things I want to tell you about and they have nothing to do with food.
Did you ever wonder what it was like to live 2,000 years ago? The ancient ruins of Pompeii seem to give us some idea. Art, in many different forms, is everywhere. The city was built out of stone and a special form of uber-strong concrete. Intricate mosaics line the floors of many houses and the remnants of brightly colored frescoes still remain. The coliseum and the political buildings are by far the coolest architecture of the city. You can almost picture the roman people sitting in the stands of the coliseum, screaming with delight as they watch some fight between men and animals take place. The coolest part about Pompeii (in my opinion) is the mosaic art. Tiny little pieces of colored tile put together to form a picture that might as well be as clear as a photograph.
The rain was so bad in Napoli that after our morning in Pompeii, we decided to skip going to Capri :/ (which was our original plan) and just got back to the hotel to rest up and get dry.
The last day of our trip was spent waiting for train after train! Trying to get to a small town in Calabria called Soverato (this is where John's family was from) was by no means easy...We had to switch trains at least three times! Still, once we arrived (around 4 in the afternoon) we were at peace. Soverato is a quiet little town that is located on the coast of Italy, facing the adriatic sea. It's the kind of town that you would want to grow up in, where everyone knows everyone, but there's enough to do that you wouldn't get bored. We went and sat by the sea, picking up seaglass as we walked and enjoying the beautiful, tranquil scenery.
Our trip came to a quick end when we had to catch our overnight train back to Firenze at 8pm. Let me just say, this was not a fun train ride. After 10 hours of sitting in a stuffy train cabin, unable to stretch our legs or sleep soundly, we were very glad to be off that train and I was very glad to see the Duomo: home.
*Unfortunately, I can't upload any pictures from this trip because my memory card for my camera is broken :(
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