The Espresso Break: Tours and Nooks of Naples, Italy and Beyond

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Write a product review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. The Espresso Break is extremely detailed, but highlights sites and historic sites not often mentioned in the usual guidebooks. Particularly, as Naples is often a destination avoided or where at the most one would spend a day hitting only the more affluent areas of the city.

The Espresso Break: Tours and Nooks of Naples, Italy and Beyond

Naples reputation as dirty, seedy, and crime ridden is probably overblown, but it can give one pause. While she recommends driving to many of the sites that she highlights, I, as a frequent visitor to Italy and Sicily, might avoid renting a car and cough up for a taxi if possible. GPS coordinates or addresses can often lead one down a grassy goatpath rather than at least a semi-paved "vicolo" where your tiny European rental might pass.

And this is with the most recent, updated Italian data card!!!

The book makes for good reading with lots of accurate historical references. As a retired Navy wife, I applaud her delving into everything Neopolitan during her husband's posting.

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We did the same during almost 4 years on the island of Okinawa, Japan. Despite that island's only being 60 miles long and 15 miles wide, and planning an excursion every weekend, we were still experiencing awesome sites right up to the end of our stay. While my husband and I are Italophiles and have been to Italy at least 10 times, we have only experienced the train and ferry stations in the Naples area, bypassing the city while heading to the Amalfi Coast or returning to Rome.

We plan to definitely experience Naples after reading The Espresso Break!!! I purchased this book last year based on many of its rave reviews. An insider's guide to Napoli?

Let me at it. One of my favorite travel guides of all time is "City Secrets: The book is organized into walks or tours, which can be quite useful if that's the way you plan your travel. However, if you go off that path, that's where I've found the book lacking in direction or information. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem?

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The Espresso Break takes you into the mythical land that is the oldest city in the Western World -- Naples, Italy -- and beyond. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Espresso Break , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Sep 06, LindyLouMac rated it it was amazing. There is so much more within the pages of this travel guide to Naples than you would expect as it has a personal feel to it.

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I suspect that this is because much of the information contained within the pages, of unusual tours and hidden nooks of Naples appeared originally on the authors blog. The author is an American Naval wife and freelance travel writer who during a three year posting to Naples explored the city and its environs writing about it on The Espresso Break which led to this book. Thi There is so much more within the pages of this travel guide to Naples than you would expect as it has a personal feel to it.

This guidebook is perfect for the armchair traveller, or to tuck in your bag on your trip to Naples whether you are a first time visitor or have been there many times before.