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Sorrento Slideshow
Sorrento
Travel Blogs from Sorrento, Italy
Water the color of blue Gatorade
... awesome dinner of Seafood Risotto with the best oysters and clams ever, so good! we even tried Limoncello, famous in Sorrento. this morning it is very hard to leave our beautiful little town of Sorrento. it has been so nice being here ...
Chilling out in Sorrento
... saw a few grottos and wandered around the various gardens and little laneways the island has to offer. Definitely a relaxing afternoon. Sorrento was also where we developed our obsession with the Italian version of 'Deal or No Deal'. As we find Italian ...
Best hostel of the trip!
... begin to imagine what life was like back in the day. After that long day of walking around, we took a train to Sorrento. It is a beautiful town with a bunch of expensive shops, beautiful hotels, and the greatest hostel ever! It is ...
The high life
... souls. Thankfully, we are heading out of town - against the flow of traffic. And the sun is out in full force. Ah, bless ITALY! Lpng, smooth, uneventful journey - to the Amalfi coast, we have decided. Only just below Naples, so we might as well crack in a ...
Bella, Bella Sorrento on Italy's southern coast
... there onto a metro which operated out of the basement of the train station and 40 minutes later we were in Sorrento, on the southern coast of Italy. While on the Metro train we were entertain by a duo. We got into our Hotel Elios, then ...
An All Nighter in Sorrento
... for a bite to eat, then headed back to get ready. We went out with our Aussie roomies, had an enjoyable night. I liked Italy / Sorrento so much, I didn't want my first day to end, so stayed out wandering around till almost 8 o'clock the following ...
Sorrento - Pompeii - Naples
... my Gelato!! That was really good. From there i went back towards Naples to Pompeii. Pompeii ------------ Pompeii is about 40 mins from Sorrento. I met my Hostel friends there and we got the Audio Guide (5E). It was soooo cold we didn't really use the ...
Sorrento (Amalfi, Capri, Positano)
Ahhh the holiday spot of the rich and famous (aparently). We spent 3 nights in the Amalfi coast and it was amazing - very picturesque... But we found that after we took a few photos, that was about it. Not too much more to see. Not all was lost. ...
Heading down South on our Own
... is the Blue Grotto. The tides were too high unfortunately the day we were here so we couldn't take the boat trip into it. Sorrento and Capri are completely different to the cities we have seen up north. We know now that Italy has such diversity. The ...
Sept 10 and 11
... is a suite with tons of room for all of us. We checked out the hotel courtyard and pool before leaving to get some dinner. Sorrento is a very busy town, buzzing with people (tourists). They close the main street to all the cars (in the evening) so that ...
Alomst like I (Stewart) never left.....
Sorrento, Italy- Some of you may or may not know this, but 15 years ago I lived in Italy for 4 years. I was stationed in Naples, Italy about a 30 minute train ride from Sorrento. So it was really nice to be back here in this area. ...
Southern Italy
Ok, after ANOTHER long ferry ride, we made it to the heel of Italy's boot. From there we headed to Sorrento via a 1 night stop in Naples (didn't see much to stay for, was quite dodgy - no wonder they needed robocops!) Sorrento was great. Stayed in a ...
That's way too close!!!!
... . However it's natural and man-made beauty and history live on and continue to charm and fascinate. Darkness comes early so with dark clouds threatening rain, we took the bus back to Sorrento, for a last visit to the shops before our trip back to Naples. ...
bag definitely arrived...new bookings and plans.
A slow morning organising new flights so I can collect bag and continue travels. Turned out to be fortunate that I was on internet and saw an email from Anne of annesitaly blogg..we meet her four years ago in a cafe in Assisi. She was in Napoli and ...
Happy Birthday to our cousins
Happy Birthday to our cousins back in Australia: Sarah - last week Ryan - this week Matthew and Thomas - next week Hope you all had (have) a great birthday. We're thinking of you even from the other side of the ...
Sorrento
PICTURES FIRST - STORIES LATER. Sorry guys, I just don't have time to tell you of all my adventures in detail so you will just have to suffice with pics for ...
Sorrento day trips
... we were dropped off for 2 hours to shop the town and have lunch. We then made our way back along the coastline to arrive in Sorrento at 6:00pm. We went back to the hotel to get cleaned up. Linda took a shower while the girls and I went out on a search ...
How beautiful
... been able to blog. Have also been able to load photos so have updated from Venice through until here. We are now in Sorrento, and tomorrow we go to Rome for 4 days. It has been great here, we went to the Isle of Capri yesterday, ...
Sorrento soothes,,,,
... , we walked down to Sorrento and began checking out the shops, the lights the gelati busyness that is Piazza Tasso in Sorrento. Some shops and businesses are closed but it is coming into a three-week relatively busy season leading up to Christmas.There is ...
Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast
... to get back from Sorrento I had to: Catch the public bus to the station (10 mins) Catch the suburban train from Sorrento to Naples (1hr 20mins) Wait for 1 hr until the next train left Catch the regional train from Naples to Rome (1hr ...
Sorrento and Capri
11 September 2007 - Tuesday (Martedi) - Day 10 - Sorrento / Capri In the morning we took the bus from Sorrento to a ferry that crossed the Bay of Naples to the island of Capri. It was our first rainy day, and our trip to the Blue Grotto ...
Amalfi Coast
... - perfect for the ride. We followed the coast through small villages of Amalfi (from where the name comes), through Positano to Sorrento and return. Here is a compendium of photos taken from the ride. At the end of the day - Greg's response - Hardly ...
Italian Coast
... was in his element examining them all. It was a nice relaxing day - I could get used to Island life. Caught another ferry to Sorrento for the night - up another 200 odd steps to get into the town. The next day (Saturday) our first stop was in ...
Day 7 without my bag...despair in paradise!
... with fruit and as good as I remembered it from last time). In beautiful fine morning sunshine we walked again to Sorrento and bought some gorgeous scarves down the market lane. We bought lunch from a friendly salumeria and ate it looking out over ...
AHHHHH! THE BEAUTIFUL AMALFI COAST
Leave Rome for Pompeii, Isle of Capri, Sorrento, Ravello and Amalfi! Recommended to read Axel Munthe's book titled The Story of San Michele to understand the story when we visit the Isle of Capri (tip from Liliana). Also, while in ...
Florence to Sorrento
10 September 2007 - Monday (Lunedi) - Day 9 - Florence to Sorrento Today took us on another long bus ride, to Sorrento, with breathtaking views of Umbria and Tuscany, the Tiber River Valley, Orvieto and Orte, the Gulf of Naples, Mt. Vesuvius ...
Capri
... . Caitlin reckons they just like to talk and they don't actually listen that much. St Agnello is like the poorer relative of Sorrento. Food and goods are much cheaper. The footpaths are SO narrow. There is a smelly fish shop with fresh caught fish every ...
Sorrento, Italy
After Pompeii we visited Sorrento, Italy. It has become a beautiful resort area. In Sorrento we strolled the old town village markets and had a garden terrace dinner. ...
Bougainvillea
Sorrento was home base for exploring the south of Italy. It's a pretty town, but apart from a little wandering around we just used it as a place for eating, sleeping and wishing for more money to buy Italian clothes and shoes! The pizza was average, but ...