At the end of our stay in Italy, My family and I spent one night in an apartment in the heart of Naples. It was a nice place for the most part. However that is not what this blog is about. Today’s blog is about what I noticed in the heart of Naples. The streets, the clothes and everything in between.
So after we got settled into that apartment with all our stuff we went and wandered the streets of Naples. As we walked along those streets I was noticing how narrow each and every street is. We were in Naples last year, but I hadn’t noticed how narrow those streets were until that day. As narrow as they are I can now understand why most people use scooters to get around or drive mostly if not all in Fiats. I’m not sure what other small car can get through those streets!
As I looked up I also noticed clothes drying on lines. The majority of them would go from window to window. That would be one window on one side of the road to another window on the opposite side of the road. Then there were some clothes drying around railings outside of a window.
I didn’t think much about all the big doors that I was looking at until one of them was open and as we walked by I could see the inside of a persons home. I don’t know why, but I never realized that those doors lead to peoples homes. I mean literally they either go into a persons kitchen where you can see them cooking or a persons living room where you can see them watching TV. There is also the occasional door that will lead into a court yard where there are many apartments that people live in. I have to say I found all this fascinating as we walk up and down those streets.
And walking up and down those streets isn’t easy either since they are still made of bricks. Some of which are rather uneven and if you aren’t watching where you’re walking it could hurt your ankle.
All in all I would have to say that walking around the heart of Naples, Italy is an interesting experience. My husband and I were trying to figure out what we were feeling during our walk and then it occurred to us, there is this nitty gritty kind of a feeling while walking in Naples. That isn’t meant as an insult either. We liked it. We liked the nitty gritty, we liked all the different shops along Naples main street and we liked all the stores and pizza places on it’s narrow streets. Oh, the one thing the city of Naples could do better with is taking care of their garbage! It’s amazing how much they let it pile up.
Kathleen Smith is an indie Author, blogger and she has her own podcast Kathleen’s Korner. You can read or listen about her life in Brooklyn and Upstate NY . You can also either read or listen to her personal story of how she and her husband kept their marriage together through 3 miscarriages in Miscarriages My Story