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Stan98103

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. . . or something like this may happen.

Maybe I'm naive, but I never sensed any danger wandering about Naples with my camera during the week I spent there. All images captured with Leica M9 and Summicron 35mm f/2 ASPH.

Ciao,

Stan
 
napoli is fantastic, i had been there once when i was younger in 1995 and then went back a few years ago after my master degree, i stayed at a friend's place, his family is from napoli. it was a very rewarding experience, both to get to know the city from a local's perspective but also to visit with a photography eye. getting lost in the old neighbourhood was a great experience :)

i'm from a not very safe city, so i grew up learning to keep an eye on everything that is going on around me, maybe that helped me not feeling threathened at all while in napoli.
 
I have been to Napoli about 12 times.....I have family that lives close by....one I night I got stuck in the city without a hotel, I tried to stay awake as long as I could but ended up sleeping outside (like a homeless person).......I had a camera with me too.....it was one of the most amazing nights that I have ever spent in that city....I love that place.....
ciao, Michael
 
Outstanding photography like the rest of your portfolio... You must be proud of your talent.
 
Stan98103 said:
Maybe I'm naive, but I never sensed any danger wandering about Naples with my camera during the week I spent there.
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"See Naples and die" is a old tourist's meme dating back to the early 19th century, when Naples wasn't only in a post-Napoleonic state of chaos, but was the primary cholera and malaria danger zone in Europe.

Naples still is slummy by Italian standards, but slums aren't generally the most dangerous areas around - and while it is controlled by organized crime, so is every other major Italian city...
 
"See Naples and die" is the well known phrase and if you go you are likely to die of cholera or typhoid. I have been to and enjoyed Italy many times but Naples was the dirtiest and most threatening place I have ever been. I am no shrinking violet; I am 6' 5" 19 stone and come from Glasgow (no mean city etc) so I don't think I am easily intimidated. But Naples is the worst city I have visited by a long way. I have walked the length of New York and been in Machester's Moss Side but never been anywhere like Naples... a manky dirty hole!

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Living in Italy but never been to Napoli, but this thread let me desire to go down there :) grazie
robert
 
Stan98103 said:
. . . or something like this may happen.

Maybe I'm naive, but I never sensed any danger wandering about Naples with my camera during the week I spent there. All images captured with Leica M9 and Summicron 35mm f/2 ASPH.

Ciao,

Stan
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stupende!!!
like your other galleries...
 
Needless to say that the images are gorgeous.

Me too, Robert. Maybe during my next Italy visit.
We all loved our last visit to Italy.
 
A few weeks ago my friend told me of the argument with his wife walking up a narrow street in Naples. He wanted her to sling her bag across her body but she insisted that hanging it from the shoulder was fine. In the end the elderly ladies in that street had to help him and pointed out to them the three or four bag snatchers in the next 50 meters. She secured the bag, but the threat had probably passed and the marauders would wait for easier prey.
 
I have never done much world traveling myself, but even for domestic US cities I have found that most areas which many think are "dangerous" really are not that risky to visit. They may have high crime rates, even high violent crime rates, but most violent crimes happen between people already involved in criminal activity. Most murder victims knew their killers. As a tourist, you are mostly part of the background scenery as far as the vast majority of dangerous criminals are concerned.

Studies have shown that suburbanites are at a greater danger of dying in car crashes than inner-city dwellers are of being killed in a crime. Yet its the crimes that make the 11 o'clock news (in lurid detail), while the car crashes at most warrant a brief passing mention.
 
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