S Elmo

After the last session our bus crawled through traffic back to Naples.  Three of us hatched a quick plan to go to one of the city's hilltops.  We jumped off the bus, made our way to the funicular -- the cable car that runs up the hill through a tunnel--and then walked to Sain Elmo where the sun was just going down.

S Elmo (13 century)

View of city &  Vesuvius from S Elmo 

Funicular station-- last stop at the top. 

Then we went back down and had dinner at this charming restaurant, Trattoria di Fernando.  I had linguine with octopus and cuttlefish, and Neapolitan meatballs.  Pretty good but over salted.  I must say that the food I had here though quite good was not spectacular either. And, weirdly, there was nary a vegetable to be had here.  All pasta, pizza, cheese (ie carbs and fat).  One wonders whether the population suffers from scurvy...  Best food--fresh ricotta and baba au rhum.  And LOL, I spied guests in a Caserta restaurant eating pizza with knife and fork.