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One of the great delights of Naples – and there are many – is to be able to hang your washing out over the street, go out for the day, and return in the evening to find every bit of your laundry perfectly dry.
It also makes you part of the local community, since not only are all their clothes on display to you and every other passer-by (from mundane socks and knickers to sometimes exotic garments of uncertain roles), but yours are on show to them.
My favourite piece of laundry so far – spotted hanging from a balcony in the quintessential old Neapolitan area of Sanita – was a gigantic technicolour bedspread featuring the face of Marilyn Monroe. My humble effort, pictured above, could hardly compete...
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