Naples Travel Blog

Deciding what to do when traveling is often one of the most challenging parts of planning a vacation in Italy. I pour through books, read countless articles online and tend to ask friends or on Twitter for restaurant recommendations and insider tips. Since I discovered NileGuide, I’ve found the...

When I was younger there was nothing I loved more than going to the bookstore, grabbing as many travel books as I could carry and finding a cozy spot to flip through the pages, getting lost in the beautiful photographs and dreaming of traveling one day. Now with webcams around the world, it’s just...

Although you might not think of romance when it comes to the Napoli Sotterranea, the labyrinth of passageways that lie under the city of Naples, that is where I found this beautiful sentiment scratched into the wall along with generations of graffiti … “Life without love is a desert.”...

After many months of silence here on the Naples Local Flavor Blog, I am happy to announce … we’re back! I’ve been hard at work helping NileGuide create the Amalfi Coast travel destinations for 2011, which has kept my hands full. I invite you to visit the Amalfi and Ravello destination...

By Laura Thayer Last month Jessica Spiegel from the WhyGo Italy Travel Guide stopped by my personal blog, Ciao Amalfi!, and wrote about Finding “Real” Italy in Venice & Naples. Jessica visited Naples for the first time last year and was smitten. I love reading about her experiences...

By Laura Thayer   I love taking photographs for a myriad of reasons, and find it hard to leave the house without a camera. You just never know when you’ll happen across something unforgettable – a glimmer of light, a cascade of colors in a street market, an impromptu street performance or...

There’s no better way to get the sense of a place than from people who live there – who walk the streets and absorb the vibrancy of local traditions. That’s precisely the Local Flavor that I hope to present here on the Naples Local Flavor Blog. To share more about life in Naples, I...

Thanks to the wonderful world of Twitter (you can follow me @NG_Naples), I was introduced just recently to a fabulous hotel in Naples called the Romeo Hotel. This is one of those rare hotels that is so achingly beautiful that it makes me wish (just a little) that I didn’t live so close to Naples....

  Are your travels taking you to Naples, Italy this month? Great news! There’s a lot to do in Naples in June, and the beautiful spring weather makes being out and about all the more enjoyable. Here’s a look at some of the events going on in Naples this month: Napoli Film Festival, June 5th-11th,...

It’s just about time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup to kick off in South Africa, and that’s no small matter for a calcio (soccer) crazed country like Italy. Soon the Azzurri, as the Italian national team is called referring to their bright blue jerseys, will be heading off to South Africa for...