Today we did not need to leave the hotel until ten thirty, a nice change. When we did leave we found our lunch along the streets of Naples. I got a miniature pizza, a panini filled with the other parts of a pizza, and some things that Don recommended that were basically fried mashed potatoes. Next we went on the Naples underground tour. There is in fact an ancient Roman city under sixty percent of Naples. But the tour itself was rather short because it would cost to much to buy up that much private property for excavation. But we did get to see part of an ancient Roman theater where the crazy emperor Nero had once tried to play every part in several plays for an entire day. And he also locked everyone in and forced them to clap. However there were two nobles who got away by faking their deaths and having their slaves carry them out on stretchers.
After the tour we got on a subway and headed to the port of Naples where we got to "get in" the Mediterranean (as in touch it, it was cold that day).
On the way back to the hotel we stopped by a cafe where I ordered some hot chocolate and was surprised when they served me literal melted chocolate in a cup. It tasted good though, and they gave me some tiny little pastries to dip in it. I finally found some reasonably priced pasta at dinner tonight and when we got back to the hotel Linda surprised us with a small chocolate cake to share.
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