8 March 2018 - 19 hours in Naples

I arrived in Naples from Venice at about 1pm. I had one aim - to wander the streets to the the Bay of Naples, which in a straight line was less than a mile from the hotel, but unfortunately in this area somebody had put a great big shipping port in the way. One lesson learned - to study the maps more closely!

It didn't matter, because I had a great time not getting to see the sea in all the glorious scruffiness of this wonderful city. I took lots of people-centric street photos - but what you see here concentrates more on the overall atmosphere of those streets.

These photos and others including lots of black and white street photos are now at my Naples photo gallery.

The view from the hotel roof across Garibaldi Square - in the foreground Stazione di Napoli Centrale with the looming volcano of Vesuvio rising above the city

Men whiling away the afternoon on a square in a central square, Piazza Principe Umberto

People on Piazza Capuana, in Centro Storico Napoli, opposite Porta Capuana

Motor cyclist emerging from Centro Storico, Naples along Via Dei Tribunali

At Gradini Forcella - the neighbourhood of San Lorenzo was at the centre of the Roman town of Napoli

Via Nuova Marina is the road that separates the city from the seafront, or in this area the docks. I never got to see the sea.

A man on his mobile phone walks across Piazza Mercato in Naples, Italy, with a tenement block of flats as the backdrop

Childrens' bikes for sale on Piazza Mercato in Naples with the church of Santa Croce e Purgatorio al Mercato

A scooter carrying, if you look carefully, three riders, passing through Porta Nolana

Fresh shellfish for sale on Via Sopramuro - the food market streets near Porta Nolana, Naples

Garibaldi Square Naples, at night as seen through the rooftop hotel sign of the B&B Hotel