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Published: January 18th 2016
The day started with a beautiful sunrise: Praiano farewelling us in style. We ventured North west to Sorrento today and whilst waiting for the bus discovered another secret of the building trade -DONKEYS! fully laden with bricks they trotted down flights of stairs to a building site at the bottom of the cliff!
The road to Sorrento was much more gentle and the town very different. The views from the hills above showed a wonderful vista of the bay all the way from Sorrento, to Pompeii and Naples! Vesuvius was snow capped and thankfully inactive. Magnificent! Sorrento was bigger than we expected and in part more modern and ugly. However we discovered the old piazza and centre of the city, inside a huge fortified wall and were not disappointed with the old buildings, wonderful churches and amazing courtyards which served as entries to all apartments - very much like Venice.
The old centre is built at the top of enormous cliffs and there is a weird lower section directly underneath the main city that seems to divide it vertically - very hard to describe.
We shopped a little, visited a yummy cake patisserie then journeyed home accompanied by
a bus load of teenagers travelling from school to the Amalfi Coast towns along the way home. This was at 1:30 pm- an early finish to the school day?
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