The Colosseum, Vatican City, the hills of Tuscany, The Leaning tower of Pisa, the canals of Venice. Those places are some of the beauty that is Italy. But in the southern part of Italy near Naples, where we live, the side of Italy that many people never hear about is right outside my back door. It's the reason that Naples has been described as "A beautiful woman with ugly feet." I'll let you be the judge.
My house is on the other side of that fence
Down the street from the hotel we stayed in when we first moved here.
This pile is on the side of a major freeway.
Yep. Those are old discarded refrigerators on the side of the highway.
The sights on my way home from the base.
Anyone need a couch???
I've heard that the trash problem here has to do with the mafia being in control of waste removal. Someone told me it's the mafia's way of showing the people of Naples who's in charge. Up north towards Rome and above they do not have this issue with trash. It appears that garbage on the roadside is unique to the Naples area alone.
Lucky us. Fortunately, we live in an area of town that actually has a garbage man that comes by the house and picks up the trash. If we didn't, then we would either have to drive our trash to a central location where it would eventually be picked up, or we would be like all those other folks throwing our trash on the side of the highway too!
So....can you appreciate a beautiful woman with ugly feet???
