all right let's uh let's get this going first of all welcome back to another video we're going to
say right away this video is going to be very different than most of our videos uh if you
don't know who we are it's Trevor Anna delightful travellers thank you for tuning in so those of
you that have been following might know that we we came from Sicily and arrived in Naples today
and we got to the train station after a seven hour train ride so big travel day and we got
scammed yeah so we had some options when we got to the train station which was late afternoon to
clarify so I don't know if rush hour is the thing here but I assume it is so it was right around
rush hour we could have walked but it's like 30 degrees Yeah and about a 30 minute walk to where
we're staying so I'm not sure if that was the best option we knew it was a really busy City too uh
the other option was taking I guess this I think we have subways here public transit basically but
again we were thinking oh maybe that's going to be packed like we don't know how to pay for we
don't know how the tickets work any of that stuff so we were just that easiest way let's get a taxi
yeah we were tired so we go outside of the train station there's hundreds of people waiting for a
taxi there seems to be hundreds of taxis we get in a taxi go for about a five maybe ten minute
drive tops the driver's very nice almost seems a little too nice I just want to say that uh out
loud and I know that might seem weird to some of you but he asked one question that sometimes
raises a flag for us he said is it your first time here to the city in Naples yes and he asked
us where we're from and like lots of questions so it seemed like he was just trying to be friendly
and helpful and gave us some recommendations but like Trevor said maybe a little bit too friendly
yeah and I had read the attack like I didn't read anything about taxi scams before I got here and
I did start to look it up just how much it would cost and everything I read said that taxis should
be relatively cheap so after a five or ten minute drive we get to the end and we say okay well how
much and he says 28 euros 28 Euro for a 5 or 10 minute drive and we're like okay and the meter was
go the meter was going but it magically went up and at the end he could sort of speak English not
great and I say well that seems a little high and he's like no no no no it's the train station it's
the station tax it's the station tax and we're like nah that seems off and he's like oh okay uh
I gave him the money basically and he wanted to keep I gave him 30. he didn't even want to give
me the two back and I said I don't have it then he gave me five back because I think he realized
that we realized that he's totally getting us the problem with it you know some people would
stand there and probably argue with him and tell him I hate it when I don't know what the price is
supposed to be even though I know it's supposed to be way less but I could sit there and argue
and be like I know it's supposed to be less okay so we we paid 25 Euro after he gave me five back
look guys it I want to be honest here you some of you might be thinking well what you lost out
on 15 Euro because it's supposed to be about 10 euros we asked the local and we found out later
here's the thing that bothers me first of all we try to avoid taxis when we travel because
we hate stuff like this so much when it happens and it's not just because it's happening to us
there were hundreds of other people old ladies getting scammed as well and that's what really
bothers us and it's unfortunate because there's no Uber there's no lift here and that's like
that in a lot of European cities it's just kind of YouTuber is actually blocked by the tax like
taxis argued against it and they won a battle and that seemed to me it Panic to me is so wrong in
the fact that they're going around and scamming people and then they win this thing to get Uber
out of the city I'm trying to imagine what some of the comments are going to be right now look we
know not all taxi drivers are like this we've met many many great taxi drivers but for those of you
that are doing this if you're a taxi driver watching this and just scamming on people
there's a word for people like you and I'll let you guys figure it out but it just makes
us mad because I saw so many older people this happening to them it's not that just angers me
so not a great first start overall yeah and on top of that like you just said not a great
person that's really the impression you want to give people the moment they get to their City
this new city don't you want people to have a good first impression and not be like I just
got scammed okay so we're gonna go out not much b-roll today we're going to take the camera see
if we can kind of make up for the day just hope things change around yeah let's go well there is
a lot of people in this city uh that's definitely the first thing I noticed is the loads and loads
of people definitely one of the busier cities we've been in in a while I'm Gonna Know Palermo
was super busy one of the main pedestrian streets was full of people and it was so nice to see so
many people out and now I'm like whoa like the street is just crazy here yeah this is wild like
so many people and then you get kind of like the architecture as well that's on every corner
people are just sitting around outside at cafes and there's just food everywhere look at this
so this is some of our first steps here in the city and we
I don't know what kind of Street we're on but yeah
you can buy lots and lots of souvenirs here but
there's lots of Christmas themes as well obviously since it is Christmas Valley
take it
it's not just Christmas things here as well there's like a whole bunch of football players
I mean honestly there's a trinket for everyone but come down here and look at this so we keep
seeing these guys and I'm not sure at all like what these are but I'm hoping you guys can maybe
tell us because they're everywhere there is just so many different kinds of shops here look at this
one look at all these things look we have like basketball players famous people for sure and
then over this way yeah kind of just more random trinkets are you gonna get something nope not
today no we're not we're not Vega trinket buyers or we actually just travel with carry-on luggage
so we don't have a lot of room for extra stuff I know a lot of people always ask us like since we
visit so many places there's something we collect like magnets or something we really don't maybe
we should but it's hard when you're traveling for long periods at a time basically everything
you buy has to be a necessity there's no space for extra stuff there really isn't all right we found
a place here that's really loud to get and after all Spritz on the side of our road believe it
or not you can get an aperol Spritz to take away hola hello uh after all two well this is super fun
already look at all the different kind of drinks he has out here yeah there's glasses of wine
he's the best he's so animated yeah
all right the day is starting to turn around already does it get any better than this I
know for people that are from Europe something like this probably doesn't seem that out of the
ordinary but from Canada to be able to walk up to some guy on the street and not only just get
a alcoholic drink but like a mixed drink and walk away with it it's just like blows my mind a little
bit I know we do it in other parts of the world sometimes we'll get a beer and like walk down the
street with it we still feel like we're doing something totally wrong but it's really really
cool look at this this was five euro for both of them two Euro 50 per drink that's really good it
oh yeah that's a strong one I can confirm that it's very strong can we say it's a fact that
Apple Spritz taste better when you're here on the streets of Italy yeah it does so much better and
can I just say that like the vibe of this place is definitely turning my mood around it's got a
great feel to it very very vibrant very young I know some people are turned off by like Street
graffiti yeah I don't know it adds something to a place that adds a grittiness but like also
it's interesting it makes it kind of like the graffiti and you know throwing the grittiness
of it the city's very young everyone's outside has that Budapest feel it has that Athens kind
of uh City feel it's like a just a Melting Pot of culture and it's just so far we're really liking
it other than you know what happened in getting scammed but maybe we just need more aperol yeah
it's so much fun walking around the city there's so many weird and odd tourist attractions and
graffiti it's awesome it is and I love like being on those crowded streets but then you turn into a
little Alleyway yeah down a place like this and you can clearly see that people live here see
their laundry hanging it's just quiet and kind of yeah we have no like immediate plans today we're
just feet on the ground of course what happened to us at the very start of the video we're trying to
make the most of it and just a lot of fun walking around these awesome alleys we're back on one of
the really busy pedestrian roads and there's again so much shopping here and so much food that you
can just kind of walk right up to these places and order all these treats yeah a lot of it's
street food style and you just walk up order and eat it wherever basically you can find a spot it's
so fun guys you guys this this place this city if there's one word that I can call it so far or
sum it up it's alive so we just came over to a place called Central Cafe stop to get a coffee
very very seriously here in Naples but here you use some of the best we went with iced coffee
because it's hot the hard thing to find here in Italy and I think it's sort of something that's
just starting to come around there was a bit of confusion to get it but we've actually experienced
this anytime we've ordered iced coffee here it comes cold but without ice in it so I don't
really maybe they just don't understand the word ice it's not translating properly because you ask
for iced coffee oh yes of course Cafe Frio something like that you're like yeah Fredo
maybe that's it Cafe Fredo and it comes in it's like basically in a cup you can't even tell that
it's cold if you asked for ice and we had a very very confusing conversation with the woman that
served it but it turned out okay in the end the reason we're so adamant about getting the ice in
the coffee is it's 31 degrees out today we've been walking around you can probably tell that
we've been sweating we just want the coffee to be extra cold we're also very used to this in
Canada where we're from like iced coffee is a huge thing when there's actually iced in
it like iced coffee iced Americano iced latte so we're starting to find them here and there
in the country we're loving that we'll see what this one's like it's really duck that's
the first thing I'll say the glass is nice and cold because I flooded it with the ice cubes
bitter
I'm gonna cool me down that is for sure this is definitely something that we missed about
Europe it's just sitting on the side of a busy busy street enjoying a coffee and
people watching all right it's time to show you guys where we're staying in the city
look at this giant entrance into our place it's like this kind of typical Italian style
Courtyard it's very massive in here we got some keys see if we can get in the Gated door
all right there we go all right up the uh giant stairs we go I'm not sure why it's so wide in
here but uh that's just how it is welcome into the super cute place that we are staying we're going
to give you a very quick tour kitchen behind us very small but it's it's super functional I think
they have everything you possibly need including a really great coffee maker love that and there is a
fridge of course yeah then we have a table here we always use this kind of like a desk it turns
into editing there's some seats of course you have a chair another chair with luggage on it but over
this way you have a patio kind of a patio door and can open this up oh it's loud out there you can
hear the planes have some flowers and yeah here's the courtyard pretty cool uh pretty cool spot you
can see yeah down there of the car so that's kind of how we get into this place so this is one of
our favorite features because it is a loft we've got this crazy spiral staircase right at the end
it's very cool there's a got quite a few stairs there and this window where the patio is it goes
all the way up to this giant Loft area yeah this room is a great little spot you can see a nice
bed here there is an air conditioner up that way closet over here and then you have the uh yeah
bathroom this way this space is technically really really small but it feels really bright and open I
love the beams on the ceilings it's just a really nice spot and it was pretty inexpensive especially
for this time of year in Naples it seemed like most stuff was way more than this I think we
paid about 75 Euro per night sad that we're not here for very long this is definitely a place
I would come back and stay quite a bit longer back out in the thick of it here I gotta watch
out for the cars and the people there's a lot of people around so we are a little bit hungry and
we figured it was time to get a snack we came over to a place called cashione de Sophie I think it's
called and we got afrita Tina so yes Naples may be super famous for pizza we are doing a separate
video on that we decided that we should try some other things at Naples is very very famous for
this is called a frittatina I think it's called tina so it's fried it's basically Naples answer
to arancini which we had of course lots of when we were in Sicily that is a deep fried uh rice
ball this is a deep fried pasta ball it looks and smells really good let's see how it tastes
foreign I'm not sure what I was expecting I guess I was thinking it was going to be really similar
to Aaron Cheney but it's not really I think because there's pasta in there it's a little
bit like mushy that sounds kind of gross but it's really not it's good maybe not my favorite snack
so a little bit crispy on the outside I wish it was a little bit crispier just because the inside
is so like not well again using that word mushy there are peas in there and I think some ham so
there's a bit of smokiness good not my favorite though I just want to point out this alley how
cool is this like all these scooters set up and you got this kind of graffiti that you see all
around Naples here on it's pretty cool well we found some ruins so we're just walking here but
the only reason we found the ruins is because there's a lot of people kind of standing around
and looking at something I haven't seen a sign yet but I still think it's so cool that while
you're walking around you just find stuff like this we're also in a square of some sort as well
so the square is actually called Piazza Bellini seems like a pretty cool area there's lots of
young people hanging out lots of cafes cool spots so before we got here before we got to Naples we
were actually wondering like is this city safe we've heard lots of mixed things about it even
uh we well we were in Italy years ago as well and we always heard just kind of mixed things
on Naples I feel like in general people kind of say bad things about Naples if you mention
it they're like oh it's not very safe it's very gritty there's lots of grime I don't know yeah
well we can tell you like we've had people say you know hide these kind of cameras don't take your
phone phone out all that stuff you know nothing flashy even like an apple watch or something like
that guys we can tell you with certainty like we've been walking around I know it's the very
first video but it feels very safe now we're it's the middle of the day we're sticking to the kind
of touristy areas yeah I think you can stick to the main areas don't walk down maybe those
little streets that we were walking down late at night by yourself probably not a good idea
like to the crowded areas if you are sticking to the crowded areas be careful of your stuff
that applies to any city that you go to and we're just saying our Spidey senses are telling us yeah
it's pretty safe here if anybody is from Naples watching or have been here that are Italians let
us know let us know in the comments because we're curious to hear what locals would say but to us
this feels like a great City and it feels pretty safe I think we already said this but maybe not
we're only here in Napoli for one full day which is not nearly enough time you might be wondering
why so basically we started in Sicily we spent a couple of weeks there and we do have to get to
poolia for a specific reason which you will find out so we do only have a very limited time here
we promise we will come back this is definitely a city we could spend a long time in and we intend
to at some point but probably in a little bit of a lower season plus there is so much to do around
here like Pompeii the Amalfi Coast like we could literally spend probably a month in this region
well our time here got off to a rough start in the video but I think it the day got better as
we made our way through a kid in general I have a really good vibes about this city I like it a lot
I've really enjoyed our very very short time here as I just said we will be back again for sure yeah
I guess kind of the moral of the story is like don't let one scam I guess in this case like
ruin a city for you I've Heard lots of people say in the past like oh it sucks because this
happened or that happened it's just one person we know not all taxi drivers are like that but
we did want to talk about it because it's it's a thing you guys it's a it's a thing that happens
and I just wish it wouldn't yeah it's something that happens when you travel a lot and I know you
think like oh you're like regular Travelers you should know better like if it happens yeah yeah it
does so if you guys got this far in the video we appreciate all of you watching all of you regular
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up next well somehow we're filming two videos in one day today I don't know how we're gonna do that
but we will be eating lots of that in the next video here in Naples yeah you'll notice in the
next video I think we have the same clothes on so that's why we don't normally do that but I don't
know if you guys even notice what we're wearing I'm just curious let us know in the comments Below
have you ever noticed that we're staying closed two videos in a row it's probably that yeah that
we try not to but anyway we're just rambling on now but we're having a great time here in
the city all right guys that's it from Naples wishing you delightful travels see you soon