Naples is full of personality. It’s gritty, gorgeous, chaotic, full of culture and man is it an amazing city for siting down and eating. It’s the kind of place where you highly anticipate your next meal, where you hope to be hungry again soon. THE PIZZA!

Of course, there’s much more to this crazy city than just relishing in the rich, beautifully simple culinary scene.

And if you can manage to not get hit by a car or moto and actually figure out how to get to where you want to go, Naples is a fabulous place to spend a few days.

On our first day, we had happy bellies full of pizza and finally found the castle we had been searching for. The entrance was two-fold, where the “life changing” part was free and the “amazing view” was $5€ each. It seemed only right to have our lives changed first, though how a castle could change a life was a mystery to me.

No one ever mentioned that it was an anti-nuclear exhibit, and as the guide began her spiel, I felt slightly disappointed, robbed of a castle experience for this modern exhibit within ancient walls and under incredibly high ceilings. And then, out of nowhere, a deafening sound fell upon us, an audio reenactment of what a nuclear bomb would sound like from more than 60km away. It was powerful. I remembered when Hiroshima survivor Shigeko Sasamori came to WVU and spoke of the horrors of being in there the day the bomb dropped. I looked at the ugly truth of war in all the photos surrounding us, and it made me cry. A hugely unexpected wave of sadness came over me, that we know how to destroy human beings in such fatal swoops. Time and time we (I hope it’s we and not just me) find ourselves wondering how can humans be so horrible to one another…

La guerra e stupida.

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