After leaving our authentic restaurant chain dinner experience that will doubtless stay with us for the rest of our lives (sorry, that's just so absurd I can't let it go at the moment), we found ourselves back in the Piazza Trieste e Trento. The centrepiece of the piazza is the Fontana del Carciofo which, if your Italian is any good, you will know means "the fountain of the artichoke".

Just go with it.

On the other side of the piazza you will see the Caffè Gambrinus, a truly historic coffeehouse which is officially on the via Chiaia, though in reality that's the small street that runs down the right-hand side of it. The front of it is sitting on the Piazza Trieste e Trento, and the other side of it faces the... oh, it really doesn't matter. It's enough to say that it's in the heart of the old centre of Napoli.

The café's name meant nothing to us at this point, though we were to learn much about it when we visited it a couple of days hence. (Long story short, it's a tourist trap. Make sure that you have plenty of time, plenty of money and plenty of change so that you can pay the exact amount, especially in the toilets. And yes, they do charge customers to use those.)

Regardless, it did look rather poetic lit up on the far side of the Piazza behind the fountain. I decided to take a shot of this guy checking his email with the traffic blurring past in the background. (How do I know he was checking his email? Because I didn't take just one frame of this shot. This just happened to be the one that I preferred to publish.) Had I been in possession of a tripod I probably would have tried for a faster speed than one 13th of a second, though I did in fact want some degree of blur on the traffic; maybe just not quite that much.