Fireworks festival in Naples, for the New Year's day..

Alarm clock at 5 am the single-day weather forecast provided by the RAI (which for the whole trip proved to be reliable as always) of respite from the disruption. Rains to divert course. Customs lose an hour for the same organization, domestic and international flights together, people full of Christmas baskets and parcels to fit a type of baskets in a tape because it puts all'impiedi! Genius ... and is well x miss the plane. We lose time xchè controls are more stringent anti-terrorism (this is the excuse), the reality is that there is a bunch of people, only two branches in operation (one blocked by a basket of Christmas), people you pass in front because x way of the casino is losing x plane and could well lose it to you that you arrived on time former junta nobody looks at me or the document or identity card ... In the face of security!
Recently added to the baggage belt my suitcase is already there (in short, as in Milan, the waiting time). I take the bus to the center. my best friends have already arrived the day before by train (because of that they cost less, when in reality I paid 20 euro more than them). Safely arrive at the Candy that I have already been announced by a text message from the girls as a disaster. I quote the text message "door towel, sleeping bag and fleece pajamas. The hotel is very chic and essential. There is also a deer in putrefaction. Psychologically prepared ".. Now, I know that is a 1 star hotel and I do not expect much, but once I have to say that perhaps I would not suck to sleep in the station. First, I expect a 3-storey building standing in a very dilapidated. Featured elementary school. Second floor disused primary school closed because x disinsecting (and you already have an opinion), third floor hotel. Beastly stench. I say that is the last of the quintet, but you seem not to understand, then leads me by the girls. Knocks as a desperate room even though it is early and shouts "came your friend." We are 5 in a cold room with a gas stove and electricity (from a friend) x frost. The furniture is dreary dust of 3 cm, the floor is not cleaned for years I think. The bathroom was dirty and cold in the corridor in common with people from just recommended. And all for 13 euros a night close to St. Clare.

 

At 6 pm are already firing razzett everywhere .... We think perhaps that awaits us after hours if already started! Let's go to Piazza del Plebiscito and learn, one of Naples x New Year, which was to walk in the middle of the road and not on the sidewalk below the windows x avoid objects, hazardous and flammable falling from above. Mica scemi! Piazza in the second practice we discover, we must bring umbrellas and raincoats, but not for the rain (which came later), but to cover up by firecrackers and a sport really intelligent, the launch of bottles of sparkling wine at the top of the empty Of course, the people ... we left the umbrella at the hotel!

There cucchia a concert of traditional Neapolitan music very beautiful. When it comes to the toast, salt on the stage with that one that makes our cabaret and is imitating the Iervolino Well ... it was really Iervolino, stuff from fear! It was so convincing as imitator ...

Once the festival in the square you move to Castel dell'Ovo x watch the fireworks really spectacular! I understand why fireworks are Napolitain famous all over the world .....

The negative side of the new year has been mixed with the cold rain, in fact we found a toast with hot tea instead of champagne.

This is a day of celebration everywhere in Naples and it's all closed, but this day there remain marked for another reason for trying out hunger!

We do breakfast with yet another hot sfogliatella late (10 am) and begin to turn the city on foot because the means do not go. Obviously that is the day we go to Vomero (which is at the top of the city). The entire walk. Around 4 we should do lunch x plug the hole, but everything is closed. Always turn walking across the city in search of a famous pizzeria which is near the train station. E 'closed. Turn and are now past 20 and try any place fetida has something edible. At about 22 (still walking) is a tavern-type fast food, but we must make the list because it is full. The restaurant does not inspire us and we decide to do another 200 meters. We find another pizza place where we say that we have to wait 30 min. But it seems nice. Expect exhausted to the cold. At about 22.30 (10 hours and a half after the last food touched and after 10 hours of walking around without stopping to frost) finally won the game.
I did not think that in a tourist town so it was so difficult to find a place opened ....

Let me say that even if a woman international Naples I found one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen. The sisters have made me run across the whole foot, but the whole, museums, corners remote-cultural places of interest over the Vesuvio, as the Vesuvius around Vesuvius. We also got a mega-romantic sunset with 2 rainbows in front of the volcano. And after this sign of fate, I decided to buy a lottery ticket (since according to the statistics always win in this area) .... Bè I tried all the tobacco shops in the city and I replied that tickets were finished for months ... . that's why they always win them just buy them!

We used the metro (which is beautiful, clean and each station has a color different from the other tunnels and decorated by artists such as in Stockholm). Unfortunately, the Funiculì-Funiculà "was closed." We turn the Spanish neighborhoods without problems, without being Scippa as you go around telling, Spaccanapoli, the Vomero, Capodimonte, Naples underground. This is a series of tunnels that are tens of meters underground. It was part of a Roman aqueduct (which seems to extend x 400 km) then used during the Second World War as a refuge. This place is not advisable to those who suffer from claustrophobia or who is in flesh, why do you touch pathways also 150 meters long, one meter high or so wide and 50 cm. If you walk and you embeddings lucky! But it's worth it because then you end up in a kind of well with the wishes of both coins