Well...
Cook's Tourist's Handbook of 1884 stated:
"Naples is an ill-built, ill-paved, ill-lighted, ill-drained, ill-watched, ill-governed, ill-ventilated city."
I don't think much has changed! This has by far the craziest, most disorganized traffic system I have ever seen.
Seems a lot more dirty and disorganized than Paris. A lot of crosswalks on extremely busy streets don't even have signals. Its kind of cool watching the locals calmly walk across the road in the midst of speeding cars on a road that doesn't have lanes. I tend to wait for a slight slowdown in traffic and then run for my life until I reach the other side.
I read that when seatbelts became manditory in italy, people in Naples started wearing shirts with pictures of seatbelts on them. I think everyone in this town has a death wish.
But I am excited to see the other places close to the town. I'm going to see the ruins at Pompei tomorrow and then take a ferry to the Amalfi coast or the island of Capri the day after that.
2 comments:
Not change since 1884? Thant's nothing. In Pompeii, on the other side of the mountain, nothing much has changed since... 79AD :)
.....Talk about a death wish... :)
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