Part of the fun of traveling in a new place is figuring out how to get around. Public transportation is good and we used a wide variety throughout our visit to Italy. All this made me decide transportation might make a good topic for ESL Readers. To show you, here are some examples from Naples, starting with walking, cars and a multitude of motorcycles and scooters.
Although most of the streets in Naples are narrow (like the photos above), the city has a few nice walking streets, one of which fronts the Bay of Naples (good place for posing, with Mt. Vesuvius in the background).
Most people were walking on this broad street on the bay, but there were alternate means of transport. You could wheel yourself, pedal a bike, or take a boat! I’m sure the person in the wheelchair was happy to have such a good road for her transportation needs. Some people must take the boats out for sea adventures, but alas, we didn’t.
The boats in the harbor do make a beautiful sight at the end of the day, though.
For a look at another type of transportation, Naples has some award winning Metro (subway) stations, decorated with art from contemporary artists and architects. Here is one in “metal shine” (my name for it).
Second, here is the Toledo Street station, voted most beautiful in Europe (by somebody). My reading of the art of this station is that first you start with murals reminding everyone of a war or revolution (top left). Why? (I don’t know). The look soon changes, however, to colors that represent the land and sun (to me).
But as you leave the land and descend down (to the tracks), the golden color of the sun and land disappears and your path takes you along the edge of water.
Then the descent takes you to the realms underneath the water–to find this!!
While emerged in the sea, you have underwater sounds to accompany your journey, strange pings and bongs. A most unusual station, with beautiful blue everywhere.
After that beautiful station, there is this inexplicable station with shoes, guns, and train rails???
Along with “normal” transport like buses, taxis, and trains, we also rode the funicular up to a hilltop to get a view of the city.
Although it was a hazy day, we got this view of Naples, with Vesuvius in the clouds in the background.
Another photo shows more of the buildings near the base of the hill and you can see the yellow and red color of much of Naples.
Transportation adventures in Naples.
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