A Sunday afternoon in Naples
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london1967On Sunday after visiting first the cemetery and later the Museo of Capodimonte in its namesake park (an amazing collection of art), we travelled to Mergellina station and walked down to the seafront.
There's a lovely view of Naples
and its bay from the harbour
(This is Castel dell'Ovo dominated by mount Vesuvius)
From the harbour we took a bus to the Parco Virgiliano at the top of Posillipo, the beautiful promontory which is 'the' place to live in Naples if you have enough money. The park was quite a walk from the bus stop but it was worth it because the views of the city and of the islands are amazing.
Capri
This is Nisida where apparently Brutus plotted the assassination of Julius Caesar in his villa.
A puddle
and a fearless cat!
Adrian talking to the cat (and being ignored!)
After we got back to Mergellina on the bus and a funicular, we walked all the way back into town on the lungomare
Piazza del Plebiscito and the church of San Francesco da Paola
Oh, how tired we were when we got back to our room!
There's a lovely view of Naples
and its bay from the harbour
(This is Castel dell'Ovo dominated by mount Vesuvius)
From the harbour we took a bus to the Parco Virgiliano at the top of Posillipo, the beautiful promontory which is 'the' place to live in Naples if you have enough money. The park was quite a walk from the bus stop but it was worth it because the views of the city and of the islands are amazing.
Capri
This is Nisida where apparently Brutus plotted the assassination of Julius Caesar in his villa.
A puddle
and a fearless cat!
Adrian talking to the cat (and being ignored!)
After we got back to Mergellina on the bus and a funicular, we walked all the way back into town on the lungomare
Piazza del Plebiscito and the church of San Francesco da Paola
Oh, how tired we were when we got back to our room!
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Date: 2013-01-30 12:44 pm (UTC)And brave. LOL.
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Date: 2013-01-30 03:05 pm (UTC)As long as I were within sight of Mt. Vesuvius, I'd be looking up escape routes and looking at geological websites for any semblance of a tremor. I'd have the 'most likely' spots where pyroplastic flows might hit mapped and avoid them.
Those two thousand year old casts of Vesuvius victims at Herculaneum and Pompeii freaked me out when I was about eight. In two thousand years, I don't want to be one myself, lol.
No, seriously - beautiful spot. Goregous photos.
Just be prepared to run.
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Date: 2013-01-30 05:12 pm (UTC)I saw a programme on TV a few years ago and the general conclusion was that if Mount Vesuvius were to erupt/explode as it happened for Pompeii, not many people would manage to escape due to the overcrowding and the congestion on the road.
(The last time it erupted was in 1944 but it was a minor one, compared to Pompeii).
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Date: 2013-01-31 08:09 pm (UTC)Sadly, we only had sun one of the 3 days we were there.
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