{"id":10320,"date":"2024-10-03T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/?p=10320"},"modified":"2024-10-04T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:24:38","slug":"day-69-naples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/day-69-naples\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 60 – Naples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not much to report today. We trained it into Naples, wandered around and did the Underground Naples tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our start wasn\u2019t too rushed this morning, we were hoping to get the 9:30 train from the Villa Regina train station so we walked the 15 minutes to the station rather than take the bikes. We\u2019re still worried we might run out of gas, so just had coffee and tea in the van rather than cook a breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first picture today isn\u2019t a great tourist board shot for Naples. This sort of rubbish is pretty much everywhere where we\u2019re staying around Pompei. Can\u2019t vouch for whether the rest of Naples is like this, but our bit is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rubbish like this all along the road sides<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other than seeing a guy stop his car and sneak behind a gate for a wee, the trip into the station was uneventful. Though it\u2019s a tough call as to whether being on a bike is more or less dangerous than walking these narrow streets with no pavements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once we got to the station (having guessed the entrance \u2018cos there\u2019s no signs directing you – chaos), we discovered our train had been suppressed (suppresso) or cancelled. So we ordered a coffee at the station cafe and waited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then our train got un-supresso\u2019ed but was 28 minutes late. Anyway we took the train for the 30 minutes or so into the Porta Nalona station (passing through the central Garibaldi station).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our train to Naples<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s amazing how much the train tracks and trains are graffitied\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracks graffitied along their lengths<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trains also suffer the graffiti treatment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The graffiti thing was an abiding memory of Rome too, so perhaps it\u2019s an Italy wide thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the train station we walked the 2.5km to the start of the GPSmyCity 12 stop walking tour of Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n