Honeymoon in Italy - Day Two (Napoli)

I know its a little bit off to be blogging about my holiday which was two and a half months ago, but better late than never right? *bleh*

Anyway, after our one night stay at Rome, we woke up fresh from a good-hotel-night's-sleep and proceed to the restaurant for the free breakfast. It was a simple spread of crossaints, pastries, breads and buns, fresh fruits, cold cuts, yoghurts, fruits juices and lots of coffee. If my memory still serves me well, I think Roma Point Hotel had one of the best selection for breakfast throughout our stay in Italy.

This is 'some' of the breakfast we had.

I think Europeans generally have very little breakfast. They usually have some bread, yoghurt or fruit and a cup of juice or coffee, and they are done. We keep getting stares when we went back for a second round of cold cuts with cheese. Hmm...maybe we just looked greedy. Hehe....

So after the hearty breakfast, we packed up and took a taxi from hotel to Termini train station. Cabs are super expensive! We spent about €28 just like that! *gulps* We bought a train ticket to Napoli (which is € 10.50 per pax).

Proof of purchase

When we reached Napoli train station, we had to take a bus to our hotel. Imagine lugging all that luggage. Hubby's nightmare started. We didn't even know where to board the bus, we just kept following people and walked back and forth with luggages in tow. People there were not too friendly when we asked for directions. We were also told that Napoli wasn't the safest town. It was all over the internet on travel forums that tourists had the worst luck with pick pockets there. It was stressful to be worried about your belongings at the same time when you are lost.

We finally found the bus and got to Hotel Napolitano. The building was some kinda shared office building which looked nothing like a hotel (freaking run down). The lift was even more dodgy. It was the super fat buttons which was green and red colored. It was tiny and felt like it was gonna break down any moment. But lucky for us, the hotel wasn't too bad.

My favourite bathroom (throughout the whole holiday) Separate from the toilet area with a tight door and super hot shower....Ahhhhhh....yums....

They had limited toiletries to offer, but it was fine by me :)

Hotel Napolitano

We had no rest cause we were on a mission to find the most popular pizza place. Nic said he read that Napoli had the best pizza and he found some directions to lead us to one. It was about 20 minutes walk from our hotel.

Stopped for a random photo at some University - the statue area which he is posing with smelt like 100 people pee-ed there! Eewww~

Da Michele (pronounced as Da Mi-ke-le I think). We found it! Julia Roberts was there when she filmed 'Eat, Pray, Love'

They had a super simple menu with the cheapest price! :)

Magherita pizza at a NORMAL size. I thought they got my order wrong and gave me a maxi instead....

This restaurant had more tourists than local people. We saw mostly Americans and there were a Japanese family and a couple of others. The serving was huge but the pizza was not overly cheesy (in a good way) so it was still good. I'd definitely recommend this place.

We walked around after our huge pizza meal and came across this church - Naples Cathedral or better known as San Gennaro Cathedral.

Its interior was super impressive despite the humble outlook. It was really grand. Nic had an awe moment when he stepped in. Unfortunately we have no pictures to share as it was not allowed to take photos inside of the cathedral.

Castello Nuovo

This castle was closed by the time we got there. So we only took very few photos outside. We had quite an enjoyable day in Napoli despite all the pick pocketing we were so worried about. Nic was so paranoid that he made sure I carried nothing at all.

We were so tired by the time we got back to the hotel. Get rest. Next day - Amalfi!