Italy or Mexico

I'm now at my second stop on my trip in Naples, in the south of Italy. The title refers to how the city reminds of those in northern Mexico, it really is incredible how vastly different it is from Rome. There is pollution, there is noise and it generally feels like chaos. It is also a city of great history and many fine churches and of course the best pizza in the world which I have sampled today and as someone who has had his fair share of pizza over the years this really does take some beating! The story of the last few days is as follows, my final day in Rome was fairly relaxed and I just chilled in the centre most of the day, wandering aimlessly around the animated streets going from piazza to piazza. I finished the day off by joining the free spaghetti dinner and drinks at Ivanhoe hostel which was a nice way to finish. Onto Saturday and my first train journey! it cost 10 euros for the 2 and a half hour journey to Naples which I thought was a good deal. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere a guy got on who could have been straight out of the mafia. He had it all, the dark glasses, smartly dressed, even a scar on his face! the confusion that followed with the metro and then finding my hostel in the heat of the afternoon hit me hard and I had to have a sleep when I arrived. Another free dinner at the hostel followed, pasta with a great deal of Sangria. It was probably the best evening I've had so far, I much prefer this hostel as its sociable but not over the top. Today I've been out with a couple of the guys from here on a 6 hour stomp around Naples, we've seen some really interesting stuff including the Spanish quarter which is the poorest area in Naples and pretty much a full on slum, I thought it may be intimidating to walk around but the people we met were very friendly. Several churches, piazzas and domes later we went down into the area most know for organised crime. It seemed chaotic and rather disorganised in my opinion, motorcycles everywhere and suicidal kids playing football in the middle of it all. Tomorrow is my last day in Naples but I'm unlikely to spend it here as I'm probably going to explore Pompei and Mount Versuvias. The weather is still around 30 degrees and looking ahead Italy and Croatia are set to continue in this vein for sometime yet!