TRAVEL DIARIES : NAPOLI | SORRENTO

• published: 17 Nov 2014
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***MISSPELLED NAPOLI BY ACCIDENT IN THE BEGINNING LOL SORRY!DIDN'T NOTICE UNTIL NOW -_- #amateur *** Travel diaries continue as I visit the birthplace of pizza, Naples, and visit its nearby neighbor Sorrento! ----------------------------------------------- Here are some tips to enjoy Naples: 1.) Keep your valuables close to you AT ALL TIMES. The pickpockets in Naples are PROS, probably the most notorious out of all of Italy. Make sure you hold on to your handbags, even cross body bags because these pickpockets are known for cutting the strap while on motorcycles and just getting away. Fellas, make sure your wallet is in a safe place! 2.) Naples is a great day trip from Rome, only 2 hrs by train, I believe I only paid $25 roundtrip so it's not a bad deal at all and you get to see a completely different side of Italy. You can get your tickets early in advance on http://www.trenitalia.com 3.) Naples is KNOWN as the birthplace of pizza so why not indulge? I visited a great pizzeria by the name of Trattoria Medina near the Port and the handmade pizzas were amazing! I also recommend L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele which is one of the BEST places in Napoli for pizza, possibly the world! 4.) Like I said before, there are HUNDREDS of churches in Naples, each church having a different history behind it, some built over 1000 years ago. Be sure to visit these churches, take in all of the beautiful architecture and just admire all of its rich history! 5.) Want to visit the Amalfi Coast, Pompeii or Sorrento? It is close by, less than an hour away and very accessible by train or car! How to get to Sorrento: The Circumvesuviana Train is a regional network of lines running out of Naples to the east of the city around Mount Vesuvius. It is not part of the Italian national rail network so you cannot buy tickets from TrenItalia on-line or from rail stations nationally. For visitors the line that is used extensively is the Naples to Sorrento via Pompeii and Herculaneum line, a journey that takes just over an hour with countless stops along the way. Frequencies are very good, around every 30 minutes all day. The stations that are most of interest to tourists between Sorrento and Naples are Castellammare di Stabia (cable car to Monte Faito), Pompeii (archaeological area and bus connection to Vesuvius), Torre Annunziata (for Oplontis) and Ercolano Scavi (for Herculaneum archaeological area). You can easily take the circumvesuviana from Napoli Centrale on Piazza Garibaldi. Also note that the part of Napoli Centrale that’s dedicated to the Circumvesuviana is downstairs from the regular trains. Make sure you ask the ticket booth agent for a roundtrip ticket in case you plan on staying out longer before they close. The round trip ticket only cost 8euro so it was a great deal indeed! I will say this, since it is VERY CHEAP and tourists mostly take this train due to historical sites along the way, pickpockets are NOTORIOUS on boarding the circumvesuviana. We were lucky to be one of the first to board the train so we were able to get some seats, but halfway through the journey, a lot of tourists boarding the train had to stand up and it got packed really quick which is a playground for pickpockets. So traveler, BEWARE! Seeing Mt. Vesuvius from the train window was also a great sight to see, along with the tiny towns along the way. You can’t get lost, Sorrento is the final stop for the train so as soon as the door opens, everyone gets out. It was a nice 45 minute train ride I must say, and to be greeted with the warm salt air as I got out was quite delightful. Navigating around town was pretty easy, as it was a “resort town”, It seemed to me that there were more tourists than locals, but overall you just couldn’t get lost. There are several maps downstairs the train station which are pretty easy to follow. Sorrento is known for their limoncello so be prepared to smell the zestiness in the air. Pretty strong too in terms of alcohol content. Every shop owners handed out samples of their Limoncello so I was pretty much getting buzzed for free lol The dirty lens: I know, I know, the lens is interfering once again with the quality of the video.Please forgive me, for some reason it didn't show up when I was taking pictures but it shows up when I'm filming? Again, I didn't realize until I got home and started editing! :( ---------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW ME! INSTAGRAM : http://www.instagram.com/abstractorganza TWITTER : http://www.twitter.com/abstractorganza PINTEREST : http://www.pinterest.com/idaliia BLOG: http://www.abstractorganza.com GOOGLE + : http://www.google.com/+abstractorganza1 THUMBS UP FOR MORE VIDEOS :) SUBSCRIBE merci, Idalia ---------------------------------------- Video made possible thanks to Apple, iMovie & Canon Powershot SX500!