Pizza in Naples: The Heavyweight Round

This is a guest post by Sarah Gonski – contact me if you’re interested in writing for Backpackingmatt.com. Pizza is to Naples what the cheese steak is to Philadelphia: Homegrown and perfect; the pride and joy of the culinary scene. When I was on a short backpacking jaunt through Italy a few weeks ago, I [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: Italian Alleyway at Dusk

Today’s Friday Travel Photo takes you to Bary, Italy – an unsuspecting port town on Italy’s east coast. Fate would result in me spending a night here after traveling some 16 hours via train, bus, and ferry from Sicily. My goal was to catch a ferry to Athens – I unfortunately missed the ferry and [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: Sicily, Italy

Today’s Friday Travel Photo was taken somewhere on the largest island in the Mediterranean – Sicily. Like much of Italy, the Sicilian region has many characteristics that are different than other regions in Italy. In some respects, a visit to Sicily is like a visit to a different country. Either way, it’s a beautiful place [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: Bari, Italy

This photo was taking in the port town of Bari, Italy. I was stranded in Bari waiting for a ferry to Greece. I wasn’t expecting much from the city, however I spent an entire evening walking it’s cobblestone old town alleyways taking in the feel of the place. It was a wonderful place to get [...]

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journey to bari

9/11/2008 – 11:56 AM Yesterday evening, at around 10 PM, I said farewell to my good mate and trusted travel partner Brian in Messina, Italy, on the Northeast coast of Sicily. It was a quintessential train station goodbye with Brian standing and waving on the platform and me waving goodbye from the train window. “See [...]

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