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Even if it was expensive, your lunch still looked delicious! Bummer about the shrimp though. I'd find it so hard not to fill up on bread alone. Yum! Beautiful photos, again.
And I finally took a photo of our painting. Again, the sign simply said "Amalfi Coast."
Any where in particular? I'm not sure. It could be anywhere in Italy!
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The meal doesn't sound quite as nice as the night before, but still pretty good, and the service sounds great. Those rolls look so good. And your photos of the gelato are doing me in. I think I need to scoot over to the North End today for a fix!
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Ok, I'm all caught up now and your views and photos are beautiful as always. I do have a sort of random question. What are the independent gelato stands charging for a cone or cup these days? I'm curious as to the change since Italy adopted the Euro. When I was last in Italy the exchange rate was about 1600L to 1US and a cone of gelato ran us between 200-400 Lira--or about a 0.15 US. We ate gelato all week long every day, several times a day and didn't spend $2 the whole time.
Well, of course when it was the Lira, everything was cheap, as the currency was always so poor compared to just about everything other currency, so it's bound to be more expensive now.
I think we paid maybe €2 for our gelato, which would be about $2.60, which I didn't think was bad for a "tourist trap" area.
Even if it was expensive, your lunch still looked delicious! Bummer about the shrimp though. I'd find it so hard not to fill up on bread alone. Yum! Beautiful photos, again.
And I finally took a photo of our painting. Again, the sign simply said "Amalfi Coast."
Any where in particular? I'm not sure. It could be anywhere in Italy!
Oh that is beautiful. I think it probably is the Amalfi coast - it certainly looks like the coastline we saw. Maybe it's one of those amalgamations, so it's more like a collection of places, rather than a specific place?
The meal doesn't sound quite as nice as the night before, but still pretty good, and the service sounds great. Those rolls look so good. And your photos of the gelato are doing me in. I think I need to scoot over to the North End today for a fix!
The presentation of the food were wonderful and I really loved the looks of those desserts. I really enjoyed all the nostalgic photos. Sorrento was a beautiful city even back in the day!!!
The presentation of the food were wonderful and I really loved the looks of those desserts. I really enjoyed all the nostalgic photos. Sorrento was a beautiful city even back in the day!!!
Yum that dinner looks really good. To bad your pizza wasn't as wonderful as you hoped, but it looks good. I LOVE bread. I have issues with eating too much of it.
The road down here was a narrow one, filled with shops and restaurants along both sides, which was lovely to walk down. I will say here that Sorrento is definitely a place to go to if you like shopping, although don’t necessarily expect to get any bargains. This is good quality stuff they have here, and you will pay accordingly for it. As a result, it took me ages to find a fridge magnet, as obviously those are far beneath Sorrento to sell them…
We carried on walking, and found ourselves facing this, which was a bit surreal…
In truth, it’s part of the gardens behind, but it just looks a bit odd from a shopping street. We found a church nearby…
.. then we headed into the Villa Communale, which is a thin stretch of tree-lined park overlooking the marina and beach below…
… and the Bay of Naples beyond.
From here, the views were spectacular.
As we stood there, we heard a familiar sound, and realised the hydrofoil was coming into Sorrento. Well, this one at least wasn’t disappearing beneath the waves – that’s what had happened to the last one we watched from this spot back in 2007, so bad was the weather that day. We stood there and said “that was us a little while ago” and realised why it had been so bad and why so many people had been so sick.
Once again, this is me proving how good my zoom is! This is me shooting out towards Naples… A worthwhile investment, me thinks…
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I think it probably is the Amalfi coast - it certainly looks like the coastline we saw. Maybe it's one of those amalgamations, so it's more like a collection of places, rather than a specific place?
We stood there and said “that was us a little while ago” and realised why it had been so bad and why so many people had been so sick. 
A worthwhile investment, me thinks… 
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