Hilton Sorrento

... whole way ' about 45 minutes. The scenery was beautiful along the Bay of Naples with Mt. Vesuvius on the other side. We arrived in Sorrento ' more stairs to navigate and found a taxi to take us to the Hilton. Arrived at the Hilton ' some kind of huge ...

... Sorrento we spent our second afternoon exploring the town.  With its expensive shops, and cute side streets with cheap souvenirs Sorrento is a walkers paradise. Today we headed out earlier for a tour of Capri.  After only 20 mins on the boat ...

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 ...

Last day in Sorrento and it was a free day.  We had a leisurely breakfast and then sat on the deck reading while looking over the bay.  After a few hours we bit the bullet and packed up for the trip home.  Even though we bought a fourth ...

... the rain in the distance. Ahhhh you could smell the wet earth. We stayed over in 5 cities/towns: Rome, Assisi, Venice, Montecatini and Sorrento and enjoyed ice-cream in all of them! Day 1 - ROME  relaxed at the Crowne Plaza Rome-St ...

... ; We had 2 small potential occurrences at Rome Train station. We were able to survive on 1 backpack each.  In Sorrento, we bought a cheap small suitcase to check souvenigiors. We tried to learn Italian through software classes, but found that having ...

... say good bye to Sorrento and 5 days of perfect weather, Venice is as charming and breathtaking as ever! Our last couple days in Sorrento we had a chance to visit Pompeii which was amazing.  The ruins are bigger than any photo, with so much to see ...

... is a diamond member because a can of coke in the hotel is 8 euros!  It will be another early night as we head out to Sorrento early tomorrow morning. And once I can figure out how to upload them photos will come soon. More from Sorrento to ...

... and St.Peters maybe try and sneak in a little shopping :) Then Wednesday its off to Sorrento, it will be nice to get to somewhere a little more peaceful, Rome feels so crazy. Well I'll try to update soon in Sorrento, hope everything is well.  ...

... , so we turned around and headed for Queenscliff instead where we would be able to catch a car and passenger ferry to Sorrento and eventually on another scenic drive along the coastline back to Melbourne.  One of the highlights of the day was having ...

... and only had to add in a tip at the end of the trip. Well - we figured even at 70 Euro for the one hour trip from Sorrento to Naples it would be worth it. Otherwise, we would need a taxi to the train station and a taxi from the train station to the next ...

... than expected temperatures. Yet, this morning as if to bid us farewell we awoke to the clearest and coolest day we have seen in Sorrento or all of Italy for that matter. "Molto bella", about 59 degrees with crisp winds.   It was so clear that you could ...

... tasty Italian food, learning Italian from the waiters, we decided to detox here and ban the booze for 2 day (this was reduced to 1 day due to the fact that the special meal we had last night included wine) Next stop Sorrento to meet Kevin & Jackie.. ...

... the main Piazza - not paying too much attention to where we were going unfortunately - just excited to be exploring a new destination. Sorrento is very charming - very old as well and looks bit tired - but all the shops were open and the people were ...