Napoli, the birthplace of pizza

I'll be the first to admit that I'm a pizza snob. Something that's been on my bucket list for a long time, and was reinforced after seeing Eat, Pray, Love in 2010, is my desire to eat pizza in the birth place of pizza, Naples.Will it taste like DiFara? What will it taste like?

I'd been searching for months for a pizza tour. Early on, all I seemed to find were other people's blogs talking about the way they explored Naples on their own, tasting pizza as they went. Naples? On my own? Isn't Naples super scary and super dangerous? Why isn't there an escorted pizza tour?

I didn't give up looking, and one day, right there on TripAdvisor was a company that does the Neaopolitan Historical Pizza Walking Tour. Perfetto! Check out Italy Hotline Tours.

We're still in the process of finalizing the details on that tour. We'd hoped to get a driver to pick us up at our hotel and take us to our guide in Naples. That proved to be prohibitively expensive. So we'll arrange our own transportation (train there and hydrofoil back) and go with the guide to fulfill an item on my bucket list.