Alessandra is charming and she found us a car from the airport despite a taxi strike as well as giving us so many tips on all the places to see in Naples. The apartment is lovely and furnished in a very attractive nautical style and the views from the terrace of the Gulf, Vesuvius and Naples at night are amazing. We had five days in Naples and we saw so much and I'll miss the napoletani but in particular the people of via egiziaca. The houses down the street are mostly palazzi with tall doors leading into courtyards and you look downhill from the south and high on the hill in the distance at the far end is the Certosa monastery and Castel Sant'Elmo. The Immacolata church in via egiziaca has lovely lapidary, the stone marquetry which seems to be a feature of Naples, and a profoundly expressive Crucifixion and Madonna at the foot of the Cross. And above all, if you speak a bit of Italian, you will love the people in the shops in the street who are funny and charming in that old-fashioned Italian way that is less common in the North of Italy. Via egiziaca is a one-way street but you will see scooters, riders with or without helmets, horns blaring, shooting up and down the street and it works, riders and drivers understand each other. You will see 3 little girls, about 10 years old, riding a scooter helmetless along via solitaria as it crosses egiziaca. It made me laugh, brought back memories of my own childhood, and I suppose life in egiziaca is a testament to Italians trusting their families and friends and their own local area and mistrusting national government and the nanny state, which are ideas a lot of us are not unsympathetic to.