Tag: Naples

• Time Travel to Another Naples: The Bourbon Tunnel

  In Italy, December 8 is a national holiday. Something about a feast and some reception and being really, really clean, like immaculate. I don’t know all the details, but there was a parade with red banners and gold fringe. And a lot of offices and government buildings were closed, and everybody was out and about,…

  thepoelog

  January 29, 2015

  travel, trip report

  Holidays, Italy, museums, Naples, playing tourist, royal demands, Stately homes, tour guides, tours, Tunnels

• Pompeii’s Erotica: If It’s in a Museum, It Must Be Art

  So, apparently, Pompeii is old Italian for “penis.” Yeah, I know, right? Nobody saw that coming. But they are everywhere at the ancient Roman town-city near Naples. Pompeii has long been on my travel bucket list. Why yes, I am aware that my travel bucket list is incredibly lame. It also includes visiting 221B Baker…

  thepoelog

  January 27, 2015

  travel, trip report

  art, dirty pictures, Italy, museums, Naples, penises, Pompeii, trip review

• Stalking Stateliness: A Visit to The Royal Palace in Naples

  Hey, you know what I love? I mother f*#$k-ing stately home. I cannot get enough of some grandiose living spaces, y’all. Something with tons of tapestries and baroque stone carved curlicues and some of those stucco putti kids and anterooms to rooms that serve no discernible purpose. Show me a medal room. Show me a…

  thepoelog

  January 21, 2015

  travel, trip report

  kim and kanye, Murat the baller, museums, Naples, playing tourist, Royal Palace, Stately homes, tourism

• The Emotional Healing Power of Naples (and Pizza)

  My cab driver doesn’t seem to have enough hands. I’m bumping along Naples chaotic, narrow, cobblestoned streets in the back of a cab. My cab driver is holding his phone up to his left ear, swerving in and out of the bumper-to-dented-bumper traffic. I think he’s fighting with the person on the other line. He’s…

  thepoelog

  December 18, 2014

  opinions (big book of), travel, Working it

  Coworkers, emotional trampoline, Italy, Naples, Pizza, travel, World War II

• I Bet Princess Kate Doesn’t Have to Deal With Dirty Gutters

  I got back from Naples, Italy very late last Wednesday and I’m suffering from carb withdrawals. A pasta depression, if you will. For example, when I walk downstairs for breakfast in the mornings now, there is no artful display of delicious Italian pastries and nobody brings me a frothy cappuccino. There are no royal apartments…

  thepoelog

  December 15, 2014

  Home (slice), travel

  acting a fool, Domestic bliss, home repairs, Italy, Naples