Sunday, 26 July
A bit of a rest day as we explored Naples and spent most of the day eating. Actually, I’m not sure I can say that, as we only had one main meal, lunch. (But it went on for hours, had four courses, and made dinner feel impossible.)
We started off with a walk through Naples, visiting more astonishingly beautiful buildings and churches and staring at them open-mouthed. Eventually, we gave up the walk, and took a taxi to an old favorite restaurant of Jeff’s – Restaurante Ciro in Mergellina. This place was top end. The waiters were all wearing white jackets and black bowties, and many of the diners looked like they’d just stepped in off their seven million dollar yacht or were meeting another VIP for a “business discussion”. We ate parma-wrapped melon, fried risotto morsels, squid, spaghetti with clams, carbonara, chocolate beignets, tiramisu, wine, and to finish – limoncello. Deliciosa. Then, we were comatose for the rest of the afternoon and didn’t even go out for dinner.
"an old favorite restaurant of Jeff’s – Restaurante Ciro in Mergellina"
ReplyDeleteHow is it an old favorite? What is Jeff's former experience in Naples?
Jeff worked on a "super yacht" sailing the Mediterranean for 8 months... Naples was one of the ports they frequented. He loved it there. :)
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