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Sorrento Slideshow
Sorrento
Travel Blogs from Sorrento, Italy
When God gives you lemons...
... else necessary, including a place selling wine for €2 a litre, provided you brought your own container... It seems that Sorrento isn't a very popular tourist destination in November, as there was only one other guy in my hostel room, who it seems ...
Removed from the hustle and bustle!
We returned from Napoli today and remained on the train to Sorrento and decided not to go to Pompei. Both tired, falling asleep on the Circumvesuviana wasn't a good thing. The first thing I noticed when we got off the train in Sorrento was the smell of ...
What A Life
... the next day. Day 8. Sorrento is part of the bigger region along the coast called the Amalfi coast. All of these towns, Sorrento and surrounding ares especially, literally sit on a cliff overlooking the sea. There are very few places that sit on sea ...
A day on the beach in Sorrento
... in the old part of Sorrento, "Blue Café" and enjoy a nice cappuccino and a strong blast of air conditioning - a rare commodity in Sorrento! It felt good to sit comfortably and answer emails and get caught up on our blog. We have found it difficult to not ...
Travel day from Italy to Croatia
... up with our bags. We stayed on the same platform and boarded the train for Bari. Remember the train strike in Sorrento? When Laurie went to check which platform we were departing from, she noticed all the train cancellations on the ...
Day 23, Rome-Sorrento: Snowing in spaghetti town
... bit. At the gift shop we sampled some limoncello, which is quite nice. It's an alcohol made with lemons, as Sorrento is the lemon growing region of Italy. There is also a melon version which is really yummy. After some more time on the bus we arrived ...
Fun in the sun
Greetings from Sorrento, Italy - quite different from the Sorrento we Melbournians know and love. Last Wednesday we said good bye to Roma and caught our first train trip to Napoli. We had a few panicy moments at the central train station, unsure what ...
We Finally Made It!!!!!!
... which meant we would have to change twice just to get to Napoli and then still have to get to Sorrento from there (We are back in comically, chaotic Italy were things just seem to happen). After catching one of the cutest little trains Shona had ...
Sorrento(ish)
... to stay away from Naples because I’ve heard nothing good about Naples. As has been the case recently, I found a hostel in Sorrento(ish) that looked really good and decided to make that my base. When I arrived, it was colder than it ...
Sorrento but not the Gold Coast one
... that hug the cliffs up high and above the Amalfi Coast. On our first afternoon we were able to take the bus from Sorrento all the way to the small town of Amalfi, which was very beautiful, even though it was packed with tourists. From ...
A Three day Tour to Sorrento
... . I leapt out of the cubicle with extreme haste and dressed at lightning speed, but the paramedics never arrived. DAY 9 WED Sorrento at leisure! So said the tour brochure, though "leisurely" was not how I would describe our day. After breakfast we ...
Sorrento, Italy
... our bags around - including an awesome new sweater I bought and John's gold crown necklace. We got some breakfast, which in Sorrento consists on donuts and waffled covered in Nutella. But it's what we did after that that was the most hilarious. I had ...
Pompeii and Sorrento
... in the Naples Museum. Then we left Pompeii to follow Naples Bay around to the seaside resort of Sorrento. Again we started with a "chinese jade" tour, this time on inlaid wood. Lovely, but super expensive and covered ...
Lazy day in Sorrento
... recent illnesses. We were feeling pretty much back to "normal" but wanted to make sure. We wandered around the streets of Sorrento for awhile before the heat got to us. The weather here is unusually humid right now and all the locals are complaining ...
Sorrento - Not The One Near Portsea....
... on a whim. The Cosa Nostra are heading south today, all the way to the front part of the ankle of the boot of Italy to Sorrento. I have enjoyed the company of familiarity so I have decided to hop aboard and head down myself. It is a big travel day. ...
Off to Sorrento by way of Pompeii
We are off to Sorrento now (actually been there and are now in Florence) and it was quite beautiful. On the way to Sorrento we stopped in pompeii and our 2nd day we travelled to the Isle of Capri and Positano which are on the Amalfi coast. p.s. ...
alive in Campania region
... , Meghan from Victoria as well, and journeyed back to Sorrento and had dinner there. I am staying literally a 2 minute train ride from Sorrento, but the streets are so narrow and the traffic so heavy, it is too much of a trial to walk. My nerves are ...
Pompei, Sorrento, Capri and the Amalfi Coast
did the three day, Italian Explorer, with Busabout. to be ...
Hello again this may be our last ...
... we have put them through. The scales shall tell when we get home. The last two days have been spent doing day trips from Sorrento. Two days ago we went by bus (the bus ride from hell - driving very quickly down a narrow winding coastal road with the ...
Hello all just a very brief update to say ...
... the size of a suburb, nor the structures so complex and advanced for 200BC - 69AD. Staying in the coastal town of Sorrento as a base for exploring the various sites close by. We deliberately avoided Naples, due to its less than savoury reputation. ...
Napoli and Sorrento
... of fun to find familiar faces when we are trying to get used to being away from home. The meal in Sorrento was wonderful. I started with some simple bruschetta and then had linguine with artichokes, grape tomatoes and some "shrimp". ...
Sorrento
Sorrento is right along the coast. Our hostel was not the greatest but we ended up meeting up with Deluca and Joy from Fairfield University and went to their rented house which was really neat. It's a really nice town and has a lot of little shops and ...
Our first day on the Amalfi Coast
... are easier from there. Plus we thought we would daytrip to Positano and spend a day there... so we thought. Sorrento is really a nice and charming town with pedestrian streets with a good amount of shopping and restaurants. Most of the ...
Sorrento Day 2
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 ...
My Sister
After our wonderful time in Naples, we went to Sorrento and saw the Battle Fields tour! Check out the ...