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Naples, Rubbish, and the NY Times

Recently the New York Times did a nice article entitled ‘36 Hours in Naples‘, which makes interesting reading and is well worth checking out. The trash/rubbish situation is mentioned, but then, in a funny sort of way this typically Italian crisis is increasing the city’s profile at a worldwide level, and some will be drawn there out of morbid curiosity I’ve no doubt.

As Brendan Behan apparently once said ‘There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.’, A quotation which could very well be the motto of someone rich and famous here in the Living Museum. Bet you can’t guess who! Not.

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About Alex Roe

Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy for more than a decade. He founded Italy Chronicles in 2005 as Blog from Italy. Alex is a Business Insider Europe contributor.

When not working on Italy Chronicles, Alex teaches English at a business school in Milan, translates, writes articles for other web sites and runs training courses.

Alex tweets news and information about Italy to his 7400+ Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly.

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