Sorrento, Italy Travel Blogs

Sorrento and environs
Sep 20, 2008 (20 photos)

... No wonder this city has a bad reputation. We fled Naples for the shelter of our impeccably clean resort-hostel. Our last day in Sorrento we actually planned on spending a day on the beach, but at 10 euros each, we didn't feel that was very backpackerish. ...

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Jun 1, 2001 (3 photos)

... clothing boutiques - looking at clothes they would never buy, since they clearly do all their shopping at Marks & Spenser! From Sorrento we also went up to the crater of Mount Vesuvio. We met up with a middle aged couple from Manchester (tourists ...

Italy's finest....
Jan 25, 2006 (10 photos)

... tourists; would be a nightmare in peak season. Yummy lunch in charming Positano; pretty posh place, lots of flash shops.... Sorrento Tough finding accomodation which was open; found the place we stayed in 15 years ago, but closed for renovations. ...

Another Scooter fix
May 24, 2006 (9 photos)

... the road opened out to wind through the mountain villages around the peninsula. At one point we had views of all three sides: Sorrento, Amalfi and Capri. We stopped at one tiny village café and had the worst coffee ever then went down into Sorrento and had ...

Amalfi Coast
Sep 9, 2008

... was simply stunning. I want to buy a house here, possibly in Positano. We spent time in Amalfi, Positano and Sorrento. We drove precariously along massive towering cliffs, and looked down onto the Mediterranean, an immense stetch of water. The jagged ...

Train to Sorrento
Mar 24, 2002

Sorrento is a gorgeous town on the coast.  It's the jumping off point for the island of Capri, and it's just north of the Amalfi Coast.  We stayed in a camp ground with a view of the bay.  The view was beautiful, the food in town was ...

Sorrento
Sep 11, 2008 (64 photos)

... spend the next day having a rest day. We set the tent up and then chilled by the pool for a bit before wandering around Sorrento, not the best town I have been to, but still nice. The other disappointing thing was that the camp site was meant to be near ...

Isle of Capri
Jun 11, 2007 (10 photos)

... limestone island rising out of the ocean with sheer cliffs bordering most of its coastline and covered with lush vegetation similar to Sorrento. It is a Geologist's dream of a day trip! 'Jerry', an elderly and eccentric local of Capri, was searching for ...

Sweet Sorrento
Jul 15, 2007

... everybody parks along the sides to get down to the beach, which then makes the roads even narrower. By the time we got to Sorrento, George and I were mentally exhausted from the trip. We both had to have our eyes glued to the road the whole time, which was ...

Cruising through the Amalfi Coast
Jun 25, 2006 (1 photos)

... to be a bigger, more commercialized Cinque Terre, beautiful, big and inviting. Anxious to do the bus trip along the coast from Sorrento to Salerno which Rick Steves assured us would "leave our mouths open and our film exposed" we decided to spend one of ...

We are back!
Sep 30, 2006 (5 photos)

Hello everyone, WE ARE BACK! After a LONG flight, we landed in Melbourne on the 19th of September. Life has gone back to how it was before but the memories of our amazing holiday will be with us forever! Apologies for not having done any entries in the ...

Market Day
Oct 5, 2009 (2 photos)

They hold a market on a monday morning so we went for a look around it was just like warrington market really with nothing that exciting so we got on the metro to the next town called Piano.  Teenage girls are the same in every country I have decided ...

Movng south
Aug 21, 2006

... to!! We caught our trianin ROma heading suoth to Naplses. After ome late night work on th web we found a very ice hote in Sorrento which is wheree we wanted to go. Thetrain to Naples wsas eyr nice and when we reached Naples we we changed trains to ...

Sorrento is pretty cool
Sep 12, 2006 (1 photos)

... many train rides and a majority of the area I went thru was scattered with little farming towns and wonderful landscape. I arrived in Sorrento and acquainted myself with the town. It is very touristy, but my room is only $20 per night. I just changed ...

Back to real world and into the furnace
Jul 17, 2005

Hello...we are now in Sorrento, Italy. We haven't been able to blog for a week so lots to tell. It has been a phenomenal week...so much contrast and, as usual, many funny and humorous things that only seem to happen to us. Last Sunday we went to an ...

Day 24: Sorrento, A man named Alphonso
Dec 11, 2007 (6 photos)

Today we went to the Isle of Capri. It is a short (but stunning) boat ride from Sorrento. Capri has basically been a resort town since the Roman days. We opted out of the contiki walking tour and decided to explore on our own today. We really wanted to ...

Sorrento, Capri, and Pompei
Oct 19, 2008

... there were so many vineyards and lemon trees everywhere. Then we hung out on the beach, ate gelato, and headed back to Sorrento on a much bumpier boat ride than we had on the way there. We went into town for dinner (had some really good gnocchi) ...

Sorrento
Jul 4, 2006 (3 photos)

We spent 2 nights in the beautiful coastal town of Sorrento, south of Naples and near Mt. Vesuvius.

Sorrento
Jul 1, 2008

Headed off to Sorrento today-we drove to Naples then took a ferry to the Isle of Capri before taking another ferry to Sorrento. Spent the day at Capri. Very hot and humid. Had a walk around then had a nice lunch at the Bella Vista Hotel at the top of ...

Sorrento
Aug 18, 2006 (8 photos)

... a nice roof terrace and a gorgeous view of Mount Vesuvius, and a shuttle bus to ferry us in and out of town. In Sorrento for 6 nights so plenty of time for relaxing and enjoying the sun. After a couple of days exploring, we took the circumvesuviana to ...

Tour 5271 \ 0820 Day 11
Aug 30, 2007

... few hidden bays. The cost of this hour trip was 12E. After that we had about 20 minutes to fill in before our launch trip back to Sorrento so I got a beer and Jackie a Lemon liquor. The cost of my large beer was 4E but it was worth it the way i was ...

Amalfi coast
Aug 5, 2008 (3 photos)

... ; We ate great food again with a lovely sun setting infront of us.  Today, we are taking a shuttle into the nearest town, Sorrento.  We are going to stay out of the sun, shop, do some laundry, eat, and chill out.  Tomorrow, we might rent ...

VIVA ITALIA!
Jul 10, 2006 (11 photos)

... (for all my sheltered american friends, we are talking about the World Cup here! haha) but to begin, I have successfully made it to Sorrento and god bless the amalfi coast, I have found paradise. I could stay here for weeks, but alas, time is a tickin. My ...

Amalfi here we come!
Sep 11, 2008 (5 photos)

So my first official trip was to the Amalfi Coast!! We arrived the first night in Sorrento just past midnight and were assigned to our bungalows just off the beach.  In the morning, we woke up to gorgeous views of the marina... Friday we spent the ...

Sorrento Day 2
May 17, 2008

Good Day ALL....  OK, so we were supposed to stay at the Grand Paradiso, however they had a mix up and we are now at the Majestic Palace. It is an incredible place surrounded by Orange and Lemon groves. We have a great room over looking all the ...

Sorrento, Pompeii, and Capri
Nov 12, 2007 (45 photos)

... a four day weekend because it was a national holiday so a group of us decided to travel down to the South. We stayed in Sorrento and visited Pompeii and Capri. The weather was rainy and cold all day Thursday while we were traveling but the rest of the ...

Ruins and Eruptions
Jun 24, 2006 (9 photos)

We have spent the last 5 days on a lovely campsite outside Sorrento in the bay of Naples. The weather has been very hot so we have spent a considerable amount of time both in the pool and the sea. Despite this, we have managed to pack in some sight ...

Sorrento
Sep 3, 2007 (11 photos)

... "shit" "of fuck" and "watch the back broke our scared silence. The narrow lanes lead you up the shire cliff face which Sorrento sits upon. The narrow roads and bricked walls on the road means that every bend you take you have to swing out into their lane, ...

The Wonders of Southern Italy
Nov 20, 2007

... of how horrifying and how quick it all happened. I recommend a trip to Pompeii if you go to Italy. We left Pompeii throughly exhausted and headed back to Sorrento. We walked back to the pizza place again and got food to go. We ate back in the room and ...

Day 19 ' WhenLifeGivesYouLemonsDrinkLimoncello
Oct 20, 2006 (35 photos)

... reached the end of the trail there were cute little picnic tables and a woman giving samples of limoncello and other homemade 'liquores di Sorrento' - we did a little shopping and moved on to town and to find a place for a late lunch. We met a nice couple ...