Beware Of Italy Pick Pockets - Naples Was NOT What I Expected / Eating At Worlds First Pizza Place
Naples Italy Nov 2025
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Today's adventure begins
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as the recording of this Saturday,
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November 29th, 2025. I'm just waking up.
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It's about 6:30 a.m. Maybe a couple
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minutes before
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6:30 a.m. I'm sitting here
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my bed in my hotel in Pisa,
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Italy,
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looking out the leaning tower
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from my window.
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Sun is just about to rise.
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You see the sun attempting to peek up
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over the horizon.
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It's already getting pretty bright, but
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you can see the little coloration and
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the hue
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over there across the
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top of the mountains.
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It's also very quiet down here. I would
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imagine in the next hour or two
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be very busy with tourists and people
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taking photos once again. right now.
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Just a handful.
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Everybody out there setting up for the
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day. Setting up the souvenir stands.
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Getting ready for the crowds.
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See the sun is now
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pretty much starting to rise and
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glistening off of the tower itself.
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Amazing.
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It's okay. Get over this. [bell]
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Just caught the bells ringing. Holy cow,
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that was cool.
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.
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Looking out the window. The day has
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begun. Crowds are starting to formulate
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and I am going to catch a train to
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another destination
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here in Italy.
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I'm inviting you to join me,
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shall you? Yeah. One last peak of my
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hotel room. You see the tours have
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started. The one I did yesterday where
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you go to the tippy top of the tower
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itself.
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It was so dang cool,
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>> not only seeing and climbing the tower
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yesterday, but also staying in the
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closest proximity that one could have to
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set tower. So iconic,
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so awesome.
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Goodbye, Leaning Tower. There's a cool
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angle. I didn't see yesterday. Taking a
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different route, walking back to the
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train station. And as you're pulling
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away from these buildings, you can
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really see the lean here
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pretty dramatically.
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Just in front of the train station. I
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got a few minutes where my train departs
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and I need to buy a ticket. Going to pop
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into the coffee bar here. Get myself a
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little caffeine. But yeah, if you just
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turn around this way, pan around, there
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is the train station. So, get some
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coffee before popping out. All right. I
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grabbed a seat out here. The each of the
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tables here come with an ashtray. I'm
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I'm a non-smoker, but if I need an
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ashtray, they have a This is a cafe
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latte, not served in the coffee cup, but
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served like in a in a glass almost.
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There is a flower bed here that says
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pizza.
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And kind of go around.
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It's a nice little little fountain of
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sorts. And then there is the train
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station that I'm heading into. Got to go
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buy two separate tickets. One from here
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to Florence and then Florence to Naples
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is where I'm going. Going to Naples. I
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could maybe buy them at the same time,
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but it's two different trains. That's
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what I meant to say.
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So, Pisa
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to Naples with one little stop off in
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Florence. Purchase ticket in this little
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electronic booth here. I'm going to
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Fenz, which is Florence 1054, platform
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2. It's already letting me know what
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platform and then once I get there, I'll
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have about 20 minutes, 20 to 25 minutes
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to book my ticket down to Naples.
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So, you can either purchase tickets at
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the little booth here, as I did, or
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you can get in the slide, which I chose
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the machine. All right, it turns out
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that I don't need to get off the train
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when I get to Florence to purchase my
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Bigieti ticket express train
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because this is the company that does
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the express. And they had not only the
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Trinitia,
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which is the localized train, but they
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also had this. So, I went ahead and
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booked both tickets here. Two different
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machines. Nailed it. All right, it's
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arriving
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at 10:54. Arriving a few minutes before
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it departs. Time for everyone to load.
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This is not assigned seats. This means I
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just got to fend for myself. The next
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section or the next train will be
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assigned seats. This one.
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I'm actually going parallel
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>> to another train here. Take a look at
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this. It's like train racing.
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>> That was cool.
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Going
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>> All right, approaching the Florence
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station.
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Pulling into the station. Train number
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one, the shortest of the two trains of
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the day.
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>> Almost completed.
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to Napoli.
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Platform 12. There it is. Bottom one
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there. Well, the bottom one with the
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number on that side. Platform 12. 1228.
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All right. I'm on my way.
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All right. Got to this platform and now
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this one. AlmValo
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the train will stop in
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Roma.
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>> This is kind of a neat little cabin
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here. You got the club seat, window
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view, and then there's also a little bar
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here,
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waters and coffees, cookies. This is
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actually a service card here. A lot of
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turbulence here. Well, not turbulence.
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I'm on a rail, but it's bouncing around
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a lot. But I had the option to get a
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couple sandwiches. I went with the ham
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sandwich. Also, this little muffin
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right there. Very bouncy.
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This is the ham sandwich.
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>> All right, I've arrived in Rome. Arrived
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in Rome.
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This is a 10-minute delay before the
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train departs again.
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>> Not too bad of a delay.
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More people are exiting and reboarding,
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but I'm staying in my seat
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and heading out. Okay, it went from a
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10-minute delay to a 20 minute delay. It
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is now up to 25 minute delay.
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10 to 20 to 25 at the Rome station just
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sitting here on the train.
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All right, ended up being a 35minut
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delay, but I'm pulling out of the
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station now. 8902
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from
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Please be reminded that smoking is
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prohibited on
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244 km hour.
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Heat. Heat.
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All right, arriving
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405 35 minutes late. It's 14° C outside.
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35 minutes late. Not too bad though. Not
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too bad considering there were a lot of
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train strikes the last few days here in
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Italy.
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soluble in
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>> 35 minutes total.
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>> I spent about 5 hours on a train today.
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>> About 5 hours
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in total.
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Check this out. After getting off the
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train, I have never seen a completely
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dedicated store to Barbie. I've seen
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Barbies in lots of stores, but never a
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store dedicated completely
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to Barbies. But this one is got all the
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signature collection over here. You got
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astronaut Barbie. You got surfing kin
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right over here. You got the holiday
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2025 Barbie. This is kind of neat. Yeah,
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I've seen lots of, you know, stores that
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have Barbies in them. But never at a
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train station. As soon as you get off
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the train, you are greeted with a Barbie
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store. And all look, there's the Barbie
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Dream Home right over there. Yeah. Not a
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lot of sunlight left. There are Look at
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all these taxis.
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There are
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Wow. This is all taxis.
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Taxi overload. I'll have no trouble
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getting to my hotel. There are plenty of
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taxis.
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Plenty of taxis.
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Okay, have arrived at my hotel. I must
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say
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this place is crazy hectic. I mean,
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there are so many people driving
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on the streets. The hotel I'm at is kind
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of tucked away on the shoreline
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right here. But man, getting over here
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was really an experience.
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This I did not expect Naples to be this
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busy. Definitely a lot more hectic and
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busy
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than Pisa where I just was.
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Million times busier. Just checked in my
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room and I'm looking here at some of the
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famous celebrities that have stayed here
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over the duration of time. Check out
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Clark Gable right here. And right above
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there's the man Alfred. There's
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Hitchcock would be proud
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right out front by that pillar. All
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right. Now that I'm walking in, I walked
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in, I opened the the doors up and turned
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the lights on to give a little room
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tour. I'm kind kind of wondering which
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room Alfred Hitchcock stayed in because
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this thing is nice. Take a look at the
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tub here. So, you got the shower, you
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got the tub, you got the shower nozzle
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up here, this little piece of plexi. If
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I want to take a bath, I could take a
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bath. I want to take a shower, I could
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take a shower. I got a telephone over
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here in case I want to make some calls
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while I'm
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going use going number two right over
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there in the shower. And then, well, in
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the commode, I mean. And then, let me
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turn this way and show the rest of this
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room. Got my luggage all put away.
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Hear the traffic out down below. You got
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a kettle over here. You got some waters.
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You got some really big teacups.
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And then you got a couple chairs here.
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A little lai outside.
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Massive massive bed.
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I mean that would be like I don't even
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know what size you even consider that
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thing. Like twice the size widthwise of
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a queen. The television is tiny in
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comparison to the size of the t size of
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the bed. A chandelier.
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A desk. An end table. I believe that
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goes to another room. Let me go out onto
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the balcony here. Show the balcony.
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Oh, I hope that's fireworks.
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There's two balconies to this room. The
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one I'm standing on and that one. The
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other balconies are the next room over.
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Got some seagulls flying around. That
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looks like it looks be a castle over
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there. You got a port of some sort. You
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got some sailboats.
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Very nice. Very nice.
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This is nice. Seagulls are squawking.
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So, my agenda this evening is to get a
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>> All right.
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We'll let you get a taxi and go over to
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the first ever pizza place is here in
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Naples. The very first pizza place ever
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the history of the world from what I'm
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hearing
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is here. So, I'm going to get myself a
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pizza pie, a pizza pie, or maybe a few
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slices.
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see how the night goes. Also, before
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heading over to that pizza place,
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decided to pop up to the roof terrace,
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which is only one floor above the room
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I'm on. I'm on I'm on the sixth floor.
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The seventh floor has a roof terrace,
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which is just really great. I was able
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to catch it just at the end of sunset. I
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wouldn't call it proper sunset, but
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you're getting that hue of the sunset.
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You have a little bit of the leftover
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sunset that's kind of off in the
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distance over across the waterway here.
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Off in the distance and the shorelines
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and the hills
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of Naples, Italy.
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Very beautiful from this this hotel. I
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am really really amazed how nice this
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hotel is right here on the corner
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portion of the city of Naples, right on
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the water, which is great with the
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seagulls flying around and everything.
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really beautiful. I'm going to grab a
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taxi. The concierge at the front, the
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bellhop, said they could just order a
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taxi at any point. I want to take a taxi
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over and grab a slice of pie from the
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first pizza place ever, which is just
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mindblowing to think about.
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So, going to do that shortly.
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I'm just enjoying the rooftop on the
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seventh floor and then back down to my
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room on the sixth floor overlooking the
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little terrace here.
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Little balcony.
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They had a whole restaurant upstairs on
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the seventh floor also, but I opted not
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to get anything up there because I'm
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going to that pizza place. First pizza
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place. I'm standing right here
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top of the balcony.
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This is actually a lot more mellower
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area of town than it was from the train
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station to here
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and the taxi. All right, going to put my
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stuff away in the room and get going.
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So, I looked up a little bit about
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Hitchcock and other people that stayed
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here and evidently Orson Wells was seen
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in here a few times in the lobby meeting
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up with people. Yeah, Orson Wells,
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Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil. Ain't that
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freaking cool to think about? I couldn't
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find any photos of Orson here, but I did
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find that Hitchcock photo.
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There you go. That's very Medusaesque.
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Right here at the intro to Hotel Excels,
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Exc Excelsior. And this is the spot here
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where Alfred Hitchcock, the photo was
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taken of him kind of right here along
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the next to the pillar where it sells
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Excelsier. Like all those famous photos
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of people were all right here. He was
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probably hailing a cab or maybe his
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driver was picking him up. Also, I was
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kind of as I was reading his stay here,
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they filmed a couple episodes of Alfred
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Hitchcock Presents here in this area of
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Italy. So, that's fun. Yeah, the
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Hitchcock photo right there. Hitchcock
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would be proud.
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This area over here is got a little
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construction fence, but there's a looks
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to be a historic archway there. And I'll
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kind of pan around and show the historic
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hotel staying at up there towards the
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roof. Very beautiful. I will say it is
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mellowed out quite a bit since when the
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taxi driver dropped me off an hour or
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two ago. I've ordered an Uber now and go
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over to the first pizza place ever. That
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is something else to think about. And
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while I'm waiting for my Uber, I'll just
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match that photo up. Alfred giving a
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little wave there.
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and Spock. Also a photo of him and Henry
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Fonda in there in the lobby hanging out.
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>> Yeah. Hollywood royalty
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stayed right here.
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A pretty good pretty good amount of
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history.
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All right, I decided to get out of the
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Uber. There's a lot of road closure, so
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we kept going. bunch of back roads and
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alleys and whatnot. And I figured it'd
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probably be quicker to just get out and
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walk. I was in the Uber for about 45
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minutes. Really didn't go anywhere
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because of the road closures. Kind of
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went around in circles, more or less.
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So, 45 minutes. Decided to get out. I'm
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just going to walk the remaining 15
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minutes over to get some some pizza.
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Probably should have just walked a few
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miles instead of doing the Uber, but
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traffic here. And the roads, the way
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they're set up, the oneway roads and
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road closures are pretty wild. Pretty
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wild. Taking a little stroll.
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I will say my first impression here is
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this is the most stressful of all the
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places I've been in Italy so far.
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I think this place is more hectic than
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Rome even.
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All right. There's a lot of pizza places
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through this area. It's kind of thinned
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out a little bit. The one I'm looking
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for is called Antisa Pizzeria Port Alba,
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which should be, according to the
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directions I punched in my phone, right
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up here, perhaps maybe. Ah. Ah. Right
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here. Here it is. So this is the
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historic place 1738
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according to what I was reading. I mean
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it may be up for discretion. It might be
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up for you know interpretation and
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and arguing but it is said that this is
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the very first place that ever created a
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pizza. This place was established back
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in 1783
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and not just here in Italy but in all
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the world. I mean it originated here.
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the Italian food and pizza. And it's not
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exactly like the pizza we have today. It
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was more of more basic. There was no
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pepperoni or ham or anything on it. It
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was more like oil and cheese and stuff.
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But yeah,
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go upstairs. I
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use the restroom real quick. They said
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it's upstairs. Surprisingly, as
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slam-packed as it is outside,
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there's like only a couple people in
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here.
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Yeah,
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>> this place is really tiny. They make the
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pizza right back in there, right in
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front of your eyes. I didn't see
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anything when I read the info that this
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was the place that had the first piece
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of pizza, but it dates back to 738 and
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1738 and is the oldest
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in the city. So, it would stand a
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reason. All right. I asked the server
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what he thinks the specialty would be.
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He said traditional or more modern. I go
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traditional and he recommended this one
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here which kind of has like a variety of
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different things. It was kind of like a
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margarita style pizza. I noticed too
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when I came in that the box they have
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out front, they have a recreation of the
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original box before they became an
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actual sitdown restaurant that they
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would serve on the street underneath the
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archway.
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Still out there. I'll show that. But
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this is the pie I got right here. It's
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pretty good.
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Yeah, it's pretty much a like a thin,
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very thin crust.
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>> Tomato sauce is good.
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Look at all that goodness in the middle
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there.
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Interesting that it must not must be a
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thing here in Italy. They don't cut the
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pizza. You got to take a a regular
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knife and cut it yourself. Well, just a
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standard knife, not even a sharpener.
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All right, there is the postcard that I
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end up getting from inside.
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And there's the restaurant dating back
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all the way back to 1738.
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Port Alba Restaurante. And they no
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longer have the exact same box out
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front, but they do have,
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you know, they have that box there, but
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they do have a another version of the
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quick service to to go box to go stuff
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if you wanted to grab something out of
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there. But highly recommend eating
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aside. The place was awesome. Very, very
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good. Dating back to the se early 1700s.
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If not the first pizza
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ever. Definitely one of the first places
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to have the first pizza. Right. Right
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here underneath this historic archway.
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That's how you know where to find it.
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Right underneath the archway. And again,
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I'm shocked as busy it was getting down
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here. There was hardly anybody in there.
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Only a few people. And I kind of learned
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from my mistake originally trying to get
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over to the pizza place. Not going to
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get in a car now. I'm just going to walk
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20 25 minutes back to the hotel, which
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is about half the time that I was in the
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original taxi and went pretty much
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nowhere. So, we're just going to walk
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it.
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I don't know what kind of city I've
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stepped into.
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They do have a lot of Christmas lights
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up. Very, very festive. There are
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Christmas lights and decorations
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everywhere on every corner. Christmas
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trees, lights, garland,
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festive, festive holiday cheer all
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through here.
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Just didn't really know what to expect
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till I got here. Didn't realize the
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hustle and bustle of this place.
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And all the scooters, too. Look at these
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scooters. They just like wedge
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themselves between the cars.
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Yeah. Again, I didn't know what
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impression I had crowdwise what Naples
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would be, but I was thinking it would be
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a little more low-key than this. This is
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this is like Time Square,
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London, Piccadilly Circus. Actually, it
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makes Piccadilly Circus look like a
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rural area, like empty. The best way to
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describe this, it's almost as if an
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entire arena emptied out into the
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streets.
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But I don't know if there was an event
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or if people are just down here on a
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casual Saturday night. That's the best
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way to describe it. Like a 50 or 60,000
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person arena emptied out.
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>> But I don't think there was an event.
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Uhoh. Something's going up here.
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Oh, somebody pickpocketing
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Nobody
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can clutch on your stuff pretty good,
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they got a pickpocketer.
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One thing I have noticed about Italy,
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anytime there's crowds, there are
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pickpockers.
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Everyone trying to bump up against you,
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looking where your wallet might be.
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That's why I brought my over the
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shoulder fanny pack. I also have a
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hoodie over the top of it zipped up. The
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only thing that's exposed is the camera
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that I'm
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holding at the moment, which if that
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gets lost, I can buy another one. But
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wallet,
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stuff like that. So, definitely don't
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want that stuff grabbed. is like
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shielded against my my chest in a in a
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bag and then a hoodie over the top of it
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and my left arm is clenching it against
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my torso.
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Think they got that guy though.
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All right, moving on.
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I don't really know what's going on to
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be honest.
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Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's not
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>> Maybe there's another altercation
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developing around it.
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All right, that was entertaining. I
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think I'm going to leave.
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>> Starting to get a little heated over
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>> All right, moving on farther into the
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thick of the crowd.
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Trying to find some gelato out here
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under the Christmas lights.
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All right, here's a gelato place. Il
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gelato
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Manila. Established 1969.
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Get some gelato. All right, these are
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the flavors. You got capri in the back.
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Coconut right here. You got some
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traditional vanilla.
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You got some mango sorbet in the back.
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All right, I went with pistachio and
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vanilla.
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Gelato from
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Manila established
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1969.
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There you go. And down below a bunch of
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birds up there or maybe it's bats, but
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there's some sort of like a little fair
43:00
of some sort that no one is at. There's
43:03
a bazillion people out in other areas,
43:05
but down here hardly anyone is at this
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little carnival thing below the ledge.
43:13
down there. It's like a hidden little
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carnival
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right down below. There's like no one
43:19
down there. The street I was just on had
43:21
8 billion people. All right, I'm almost
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back over to my hotel. The crowds have
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thinned out a little bit, but the
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parking situation
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is just there's no parking. People are
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parking here and walking like a mile
43:34
over to that major busy thoroughare.
43:37
This area here is just they're just
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cramming cars in here. I don't even know
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where you'd even park to come. I don't I
43:44
got to be honest. I don't know why
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everyone's just heading downtown. I
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mean, there must be something going on.
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Or maybe it's like this every night on
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the weekends.
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Almost back to the my hotel, which is
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kind of in a I want to say secluded, but
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in a corner spot of the city. Right on
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the corner of the water. Right on the
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right on the if it's the ocean, but it's
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the waterfront.
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It's actually right around the corner.
44:17
All right, I'm back in front of my
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hotel. That's going to do it for today.
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Looking over here at the construction
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zone and this really cool looking
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historic archway of some sort right here
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on the water. Right here on the bay.
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Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the
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next video. The vlog
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>> Naples.
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It's pretty wild.
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The vlog is over.