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I love those little cobblestone streets that are found all over Italy. The windows, balconies and doorways covered with flowers and vines...just gorgeous And that statue is beautiful. You can feel the love between the mother and child.
More beautiful pictures. I'm shocked at the price charged in the gelato article We spent 4 days in Rome 3 years ago prior to our med cruise and 2 Euros was the going rate for a small cup no matter where we tried it. We packed in quite a lot of gelato in 4 days
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Sorrento is amazing! Just so picturesque. Sooooo want to visit! Methinks your camera is quite the investment as well - wow!
I suppose that's a good explanation for my painting - a collection of various places. But that one shot of yours, with the marina in the foreground, sure looked close!
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Spectacular photos! Love those narrow shopping streets, but I'm glad I roamed through them when I was physically able to walk. A vacation there would not be fun with the scooter! I remember your visit to this area on the cruise and am so glad you got a chance to return in such beautiful weather-- and on dry land.
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I love those little cobblestone streets that are found all over Italy. The windows, balconies and doorways covered with flowers and vines...just gorgeous And that statue is beautiful. You can feel the love between the mother and child.
Well said - and I think perhaps that's what I was picking up on without realising it...
More beautiful pictures. I'm shocked at the price charged in the gelato article
I think everyone was shocked by that!
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We spent 4 days in Rome 3 years ago prior to our med cruise and 2 Euros was the going rate for a small cup no matter where we tried it. We packed in quite a lot of gelato in 4 days
Spectacular photos! Love those narrow shopping streets, but I'm glad I roamed through them when I was physically able to walk. A vacation there would not be fun with the scooter!
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Okay, you have convinced me to buy my DH and I one of those beautiful Yachts and retire in Italy, especially Sorrento!!! The cobble street ( with all the shopping that needs to be done and I will volunteer if necessary) and the balconies are what brings character to the city.
They live in a small town in the Province of Foggia, I will get there someday
I had to look that up, as I'd never heard of it before, but from the map, I can it's on the opposite side of Italy, parallel to Naples, so not a million miles away from where we went.
Okay, you have convinced me to buy my DH and I one of those beautiful Yachts and retire in Italy, especially Sorrento!!!
Glad I could help out with your retirement plans!
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The cobble street ( with all the shopping that needs to be done and I will volunteer if necessary) and the balconies are what brings character to the city.
Oh such a hardship to have to do all that shopping!
Sunday 5 May – part eleven: you can’t come in here…
We made our way back towards the main square.
So that’s what happened to our convertible then…
We made the mistake of walking into what turned out to be the grounds of the Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittorie. There was no-one in the little hut, so I figured that it must be Ok, but apparently not. A guy came running out from reception to stop us. Well, we won’t be doing that then…
We carried on along the road, heading for our final stop of the day, and by now, the sun really was beating down on us. It was so hot, although thankfully at least it was just heat, and no humidity like you get in Florida. As we walked, we saw some final preparations for the Giro d’Italia…
… and then we reached our destination:
This place is the Agruminato Lemon Orchard, which I wanted to see. The second we got inside, it was so much cooler. We figured that the netting above must help to keep the lemons, and some oranges as we saw a few of those too, at a certain temperature. It was certainly very welcome.
Mark spotted this bird, looking for a worm – and he found one!
We came out of the other side, and wandered back to the car, paying the princely sum of €6 for our stay here, which we thought was an absolute bargain.
From there, it was back to the hotel, although first we had to persuade the GPS a couple of times that we didn’t want to go the way it was sending us, as they were dead ends.
Finally, we were back on the main road, and we were heading for the hotel.
There was a good view from the hotel of what we’d seen close up earlier…
Once we got there, we settled down in the room for some down time. We’d left just after 9:00am, and got back just before 5:00pm, so it had been a long day.
I headed out a couple of times to see if there was a decent sunset, and found that there was:
The car park was certainly a lot fuller tonight, and there was a group of Germans sitting outside. One brave soul was actually in the pool!
At just after 7:25pm, I checked in for our flight tomorrow, and thankfully we had our choice of seats, even if the system had put us in the third from last row. I quickly changed that, grabbing row 8, and we were set.
We both went out to admire the sunset…
.. then it was downstairs to order dinner.
As well as getting a fair bit to drink (most of it non-alcoholic I hasten to add… ), I got a trio of cheeses:
Mark got a hamburger and fries:
And we both went for the coconut sorbet again, as we’d enjoyed it so much the first time around.
I have to be honest, I struggled with mine, mainly because I really wasn’t as hungry as I thought (I guess lunch really did fill me up then…) and because some of the cheese was quite salty and I was desperately thirsty, so having something salty wasn’t a great plan. Still, it filled a gap.
After dinner, we packed, and thankfully everything seemed to fit in the case Ok, even with the additional purchases we’d made today…
It had been a wonderful, but thoroughly exhausting day, with more of the same promised for tomorrow, complete with an early start.
The weather today was hot and sunny with temperatures in the low 80s. The best thing today was returning to Sorrento and enjoying it about 100 times more than our first visit. The worst thing today was the mad Italian drivers, the mad Italian moped riders, the mad Italian cyclists - you get the idea! Today we tried driving along the Amalfi coast And the result was it was hair raising at times, but the views were superb. The most magical moment today was getting my first proper look at Positano.
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We spent 4 days in Rome 3 years ago prior to our med cruise and 2 Euros was the going rate for a small cup no matter where we tried it. We packed in quite a lot of gelato in 4 days 
Sooooo want to visit! Methinks your camera is quite the investment as well - wow!
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it wouldn't have been fun on a scooter at all...
The cobble street ( with all the shopping that needs to be done and I will volunteer if necessary
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