In the midst of all the pizza-eating and enjoying the sights and sounds of the streets of Naples, we took a rather calm approach to my last day in town and visited a Villa and church/monastery complex way up the hill looking out on Naples. The city is full of so many Baroque masterpieces. I’m …
When I asked my friend Antonio if we could spend a day on the island of Ischia, he graciously agreed and planned the whole day to make sure we saw the highlights. Ischia is an island off the coast of Naples and it takes about 45 minutes to get there by a ferry. Everybody else …
Pizza anyone? What started as a long weekend to reimagine the Naples of Elena Ferrante’s four Neapolitan novels turned into four days of discovering hidden gems in this vast, bustling, crowded wonderful city. And I ate some pizza. Exceptional pizza. And spaghetti with mussels. And mini octopi, called moscardini, from a small bread bowl. And …
