Travel to Naples
[Writing from Naples, Italy - Friday, June 17]
We went for dinner last night at the local pizza shop, where I had the same kind of calzone that I had earlier in the week. It was a long, long day at work, and I needed something fast and easy. After that, we went back to our rooms and packed up for today's trip to Naples.
We worked this morning, and skipped lunch. Then we checked out of the hotel and took the cab to the Malpensa airport outside Milan. We caught the Alitalia flight to Naples from there.
In America, when you go the the airport you go to your airline's ticket counter to check in. In many other places in the world, Italy being one of them, you go to a ticketing hall and check the departures board. On the board, it will have a ticketing queue number next to your flight. In some places, like Shanghai, there is one queue per flight - you just have to get the right number so you can check in for your flight. Here, Alitalia has about four different queues. So you get your number, and go queue up. You check your bags, and then head for security (just like everywhere else).
The flight was fine, I guess. I fell asleep. So did Eric (one of the other guys I work with, who has come for part of the time to help out). That's ok, because it was a very short flight. When we got here, there was a taxi waiting for us. The driver was pretty funny, but he charged us a bit too much for the trip. He offered to drive us around tomorrow - to Pompeii and some of the costal towns, for 90 Euro each (about 125 dollars). That's a pretty expensive tour around, so Sue and I decided to go to Pompeii on the train, which is much cheaper.
We dropped off our things in the room and went around the corner to have a bite. We split a bottle of house white wine (no label, but it was good). I had prosccutio and mozarella bufala for starters, then bolognese fettucini, which is fetuccini with a beef and creamed tomato sauce. Very good, but I couldn't finish all of it. Then we waddled back to the hotel to turn in early.
The Internet in my room isn't working. If they fix it while I'm at Pompeii, I'll post this tomorrow night. Otherwise, it will be Monday when I'm at the office.
Oh, Naples is going to go away someday. It's very, very close to Vesuvius. I don't think the volcano is more than 10 or 15 miles from downtown Naples. I always thought Pompeii was some distance away, but it's right at the foot of the mountain. I'll try to post some pictures, since the volcano and the entire area are quite beautiful.
We went for dinner last night at the local pizza shop, where I had the same kind of calzone that I had earlier in the week. It was a long, long day at work, and I needed something fast and easy. After that, we went back to our rooms and packed up for today's trip to Naples.
We worked this morning, and skipped lunch. Then we checked out of the hotel and took the cab to the Malpensa airport outside Milan. We caught the Alitalia flight to Naples from there.
In America, when you go the the airport you go to your airline's ticket counter to check in. In many other places in the world, Italy being one of them, you go to a ticketing hall and check the departures board. On the board, it will have a ticketing queue number next to your flight. In some places, like Shanghai, there is one queue per flight - you just have to get the right number so you can check in for your flight. Here, Alitalia has about four different queues. So you get your number, and go queue up. You check your bags, and then head for security (just like everywhere else).
The flight was fine, I guess. I fell asleep. So did Eric (one of the other guys I work with, who has come for part of the time to help out). That's ok, because it was a very short flight. When we got here, there was a taxi waiting for us. The driver was pretty funny, but he charged us a bit too much for the trip. He offered to drive us around tomorrow - to Pompeii and some of the costal towns, for 90 Euro each (about 125 dollars). That's a pretty expensive tour around, so Sue and I decided to go to Pompeii on the train, which is much cheaper.
We dropped off our things in the room and went around the corner to have a bite. We split a bottle of house white wine (no label, but it was good). I had prosccutio and mozarella bufala for starters, then bolognese fettucini, which is fetuccini with a beef and creamed tomato sauce. Very good, but I couldn't finish all of it. Then we waddled back to the hotel to turn in early.
The Internet in my room isn't working. If they fix it while I'm at Pompeii, I'll post this tomorrow night. Otherwise, it will be Monday when I'm at the office.
Oh, Naples is going to go away someday. It's very, very close to Vesuvius. I don't think the volcano is more than 10 or 15 miles from downtown Naples. I always thought Pompeii was some distance away, but it's right at the foot of the mountain. I'll try to post some pictures, since the volcano and the entire area are quite beautiful.
posted by Unknown at 5:22 AM
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