At breakfast this morning, I spoke with a couple from Taormina, Sicily! What fun to talk of the town and area I had just been on tour!

Now my first full day in Naples…

Whether I was at the Royal Palace or Castel Nuovo, besides many, many steps, there were huge rooms for the royals. My first visit was the Royal Palace….10 Euro entrance fee, plus 5 Euros for audio guide… but know, signs are in English too.

How many parlors does a Queen need? Apparently 3! It was amazing to walk in the short passageway/hallway which for most of us would be more than the length of our home! All beautiful and quite difficult to capture in photos, but here I try.

I wandered on streets parallel to the busiest ones and then saw a sign for the pedestrian walk to the Maradona mural. What luck as that was on my list of places to view. Diego Maradona played football/ in America it is soccer, for 7 years in Naples. He is Argentinian, but his grandparents were both from Italy. Apparently he had great footwork on the field and led his team to some important wins. Before I even arrived at the mural of Maradona, there are others murals too.

My shopping included tomatoes, a bottle of Gatorade and tangerines for 3 Euros and at another shop a prosciutto and provolone cheese sandwich on a huge roll, which became my lunch and dinner, for 7 Euros! I could not think pizza today.

Castel Nuovo is a massive fortress with 5 towers with a huge courtyard you enter upon arrival. There are at least 3 levels, many stone steps to then view more rooms that are now designated for various purposes.

I think you get the sense of how opulent and huge rooms were at both locations I visited today without my adding any other photos. But you can look across and see Mount Vesuvius, a place I’ll head to tomorrow!