Chapter One
Slumming in Naples
24.06.2011
This is the first post of the Dillard sisters gone rogue. Get excited. We've decided to title things differently for two reasons:
1) when we get famous for being such amazing travel writers, we can publish our book easier since everything will be in chapters already!
2) the day numbers were getting a little confusing.
Here's us with our backpacks! 45 liters can get pretty heavy. Might have to start trading our belongings soon.
So here is where we are now:
We woke up early yesterday morning to part ways with the family and head to Naples on our own. For those of you who missed the first half of our trip, check out our previous postings. It's quite a thrill.
Anywho, off to the train station to figure out how to get everywhere using our Eurail pass. Everything was going well until we realized we have the wrong Eurail pass. Sooo we're gonna have to figure that out but not right now. Just some words of wisdom: the Eurail website is extremely misleading.
Allison is so excited! (this was before we found out about the wrong ticket thing...)
We arrived in Naples after 5 hours on and switching trains. We wandered around to find Internet for the first time in almost a week! Ugh I miss 3G. I will never say a bad word about AT&T again. Finally after wandering the sketchy, trash-covered streets we arrived at a big, black, locked gate which was pretty frightening. This scary location happened to be our first hostel. At least its safe? Good thing becsuse our building may or may not be surrounded by little vending booths run by the most frightening people in Naples. Things were going well till they told us we were supposed to arrive yesterday and didn't have us down for a reservation...luckily they were wrong and hostelworld.com had the right schedule. Never has a little jail cell room been more welcome in my life.
Here are some photos of the neighborhood...get the idea?
The rest of the first day consisted of wandering the trashy streets of Naples. Apparently they have a garbage problem here (hence the name of the chapter). We ate dinner, showered in a surprisingly clean bathroom and went to bed.
