Naples, home of the best Pizza ever. #HogsAbroad in Spain #FoodieFriday

This week was spring break. A group of 8 friends and I decided we were going to explore as much of Italy as we possibly could. Spring break overlapped with Easter, so we were expecting Italy to be jam packed with tourists. Fortunately for us, this wasn’t the case. One of our stops was in Naples. Everyone we talked to advised us to skip this city, but we didn’t listen. I sure am glad we didn’t. While there isn’t much to do, it is a beautiful city filled with some of the nicest Italian locals we came across. We walked the shoreline, climbed the Castel dell’Ovo (literally meaning Egg castle), and most importantly, had the best pizza I have ever had the pleasure to indulge in.

Now if you know me, you’ll know that I am overly obsessed with pizza. Pizza is by far the best food in the world. With that being said, you can only imagine how good this pizza was. Pizza originated in Naples, so when I tell you this pizza is uncomprehendingly good, you better believe. We got it at a tiny shop next to our hostel. We noticed this place had a million carry out orders, and the only 2 tables in the place were always occupied by what seemed to be regulars. We decided to give try and go in, and luckily we got there in the nick of time and secure a spot.

 

Pictures truly do this pizza no justice. Naples was worth the visit for the pizza alone. I can’t wait to go back.

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Hello, my name is Edgardo Alaniz Flores. I am currently a Junior at the University of Arkansas. My major is International Business with a concentration in supply chain management. I also am pursuing a minor in Spanish. For the spring semester of 2018 I will be studying abroad at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain. I choose this program for various reasons, but the top two reasons were that they offered many business classes, and the second being that the university was in a Spanish speaking country. To make this journey across the ocean possible, I applied for a few scholarships. The Sam M. Walton college of Business study abroad scholarship. Another Scholarship I applied for was the Gilman scholarship. Without these scholarships my study abroad experience would not have been possible.

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International Business major Edgardo Flores spent the spring 2018 semester in Spain with our U of A Exchange Program at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid with the help of the Gilman Scholarship and our Office of Study Abroad Scholarship.

Read more from Edgardo at edgardoenespana.wordpress.com.

Don't miss your opportunity to study or intern abroad! Start your search at http://studyabroad.uark.edu/search/

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About the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program

The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program (http://www.iie.org/Programs/Gilman-Scholarship-Program) offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies abroad. Such international study is intended to better prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.