A mere twenty four hours in Naples, Italy… This brief stopover on our way from Rome to Sorrento existed for a couple of reasons – to visit the Naples National Archaeological Museum in advance of visiting Pompeii a few days later, and for me to try as many pizzas as I could. I’m proud to say I managed to squeeze in four delicious pizzas, even if for one of them it meant creating a rarely used meal between lunch and dinner.
The first pizza of the visit was a proper street lunch at what many believe to be the world’s first ever pizzeria, Antica Pizzeria Port’Alba. Back in the mid 1700s this restaurant replaced street food stands and brought their wood fired pizzas out to the street to sell. Here I am taking my first bite of a Neapolitan pizza:
