Easy Fun in Naples


Naples is dangerous. Naples is dirty. Naples is crazy.

During my solo trip at the beginning of June, I experienced that only one of these things is really true, that is, that Naples is indeed, mad as a frikkin march hare. 

 Christmas tinsel lines the streets year-round, families of ten race the streets on mopeds, and people don’t text to meet up their friends.

Group by the water

Mopeds and red lipstick

 A typical night in Naples will most likely end with 20 new contacts in your phone, olive oil down your shirt, and the sound of fire-works ringing in your ears. Over a one-euro drink at the nutty and always full Cammarota Spritz, a table of Neapolitans explained to me that the party will always come to you.You just have to stay open.Directly after that statement, our neighbors then proceeded to pull duct-taped bongos out of their backpacks, cry joyously into the abyss, and inspire a street-wide conga line.



Cammarota Spritz in the Latin Quarters. Yes, that guy has a trumpet.

 After drinks at the Cammarota, I followed the sound of the drunken chorus to the eatery just a stumble away, Trattoria da Nennella, where another party brewed alongside spaghetti with seafood and fried ricotta balls.


5 euro seafood and hand-made spaghetti

 You can look forward to neighborhood parades, bustling markets, and shameless afternoon cocktails during the day. For an especially cool atmosphere, I headed to Keste bar in the university neighborhood. As Naples is structure-averse, I followed my gut instincts and walked to the most elevated point I could find without relying on google maps.

Fish Market

Keste, full of curly-headed university kids and hand painted tables

Capisce a me?!?

Casual neighborhood religious parade

Tinsel

Open air book market

Peaceful moment

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