32 Gusti


2nd February, 2010


Can I recommend the jar sauce by Barilla? It makes delicious pasta so easy! There are lots of flavors and even more pastas to put them on.
With my food comment done for the day I will move on to the lovely walks that you can take here in Napoli to work off all the delicious (and plentiful) food!

Starting in the neighborhood of Aranella you can walk for about 30 minutes of tree lined roads, shops, apartments, and past the football stadium where there seems to be a perpetual group of sweet old men playing some kind of game around picnic tables.
You will eventually come to piazza Vanvitelli, a sensational neighborhood more in the European style. Wide pedestrian streets and higher end stores are characteristic of this quartiere.

Once in Vanvitelli you have a lot of great options. You can walk the quartiere of Vomero, full of beautiful and unique architecture and views of the bay and Mt. Vesuvius through the close buildings as you wind through the narrow streets.
Or you could ride the funicular (incline train) down the hills to the bay. There is a nice park down there and across from the park is the lovely bay of Naples. On a clear sunny day it is great! Views of two (or more) of the castles, views of the many buildings, the islands and of course, the imposing Mt. Vesuvius.

The fish market is a fun sight too! The fishermen bring in their boatfuls of fresh caught fish and sell them right there on the rocks by the water. I hate fish. But this made me wish that I liked them.