· Napoli is a very strange place, in a very good way, but unfortunately very polluted.

· There is no hype: Napolitan pizza is unreal.

· My hosts in Naples were unbelievable. They took me to their favourite pizzeria, we roamed the streets together, cooked pasta together, and would stay up late on their rooftop terrace exchanging stories. That is what travelling is all about.

· one plays the harp, and sometimes plays on the street

· I’ve always gotten compliments on my shirts, but I’ve never had a stranger ask to flat-out exchange shirts on the spot. Of course I obliged.

· Speaking of tshirts, all over Italy you see people wearing skull tshirts. Boys, girls, men, women. And many of them aren’t lame, which is refreshing. Last year, I started my own collection of skull tshirts to prove that they don’t have to be lame — I’m currently up to 5.

· Pompeii is one the most amazing places I have ever been to — I was like a giddy schoolchild.

· Pompeii is huge, and not many people go. You often have the place to yourself, like in a 2,400 year old Greek theatre. Or maybe you stand in the middle of an empty ancient colosseum and imagine what it was like to be a gladiator.

· and I was so impressed with myself becuase I figured out on my own how to tell the difference between the Greek and Roman buildings.