Blogs from Sorrento, Campania, Italy, Europe - page 12

Italian Adventure Anna and I organised our delicious breakie of yoghurt, muslie and slice banana ready to have on the bus as it was an early 7:30 start. We weren't the earliest so were left to be the back seat bandits with Dan from Adelaide and then Terry and Alan the only mature age couple joined us up the back. Anna and I cracked out tubs, started munching only to discover that our new guide, Ereni's first rule was "no eating on the bus". Whoops! Haha Big chats and we discovered the 'oldies' were really super cool to hang out with and not afraid of being overun by a busload of about 30 twenty somethings. At our first service stop Terry and Alan met Teagan who decided as they were the 'olds' then we should fully ... read more

Sunday, 27th May, 2012 – Sorrento, Italy We have decided to stay in Sorrento for another night (tomorrow) and will be leaving on Tuesday – still haven’t decided our destination…. We’ll work that out in the morning. The extra day was to see a few more things in this great part of the world. Today we visited Pompeii, and Herculeum – both towns being victims of the earthquake and eruption of Vesuvius. In total, we walked for about 6 hours, caught trains there and back which took a good hour each way, so again, we’re exhausted – but thoroughly enjoying it. We both thought Herculeum was better than Pompeii – less people, better preserved buildings and artefacts. It was hard to comprehend that after reading about these towns for so many years, that we were actually ... read more

Day 1 We caught the train to Naples from Rome and then down to Sorrento. Our hotel was up on a hillside about 25mins up from the hotel... Would have been nice if the sign for the hotel was before our bus stop but it wasn't! We got off at the next stop and ventured down the treacherous, windy road dodging the cars as they came hooning round the bend!! Our room was nice but the view was amazing! Right over the Sorrento bay! Incredible! We missed the bus back down to Sorrento so they said you could walk, an easy 30 minute walk..... Well blinkin heck if that was an easy walk I would hate to see a hard one! It was down a steep, slippery, windy "street". But it was beautiful and I am ... read more

*Better pictures to come* This is going to be a quick post before bed. I’m hoping my mom will log into Skype while I’m writing this up. I haven’t been able to actually talk to her since I’ve been in Europe, just emails. This weekend trip has been amazing, except being sick and forgetting my camera. I made friends with one of the girls from California, northern to be more specific. Her name is Rebecca and we have spent almost all our free time together. I got lucky and she has a really nice camera and is willing to share her pics. Of those a few include me in from of a palm tree just for my mom. After taking my very first train on Thursday we boarded a private bus from Naples to Sorrento. I ... read more

„Wer nach Neapel fährt, darf Sorrent nicht verpassen!“, dachte man sich und fuhr los! Mit dem Bummelzug (Touri-Zug natürlich verpasst) dauerte es etwas über eine Stunde bis zur Endhaltestelle Sorrento. Voller Vorfreude stiegen wir am Bahnhof aus und und ich freute mich riesig, dass es zur Abwechslung mal sauber und gepflegt aussah. Der Weg führte uns zunächst an eine Art Aussichtspunkt, von dem aus es steil bergab zum Meer geht. Unten sind viele kleine Privatstrände von Hotels und glasklares Wasser. Eigentlich sehr schön, erinnerte aber leider von weitem doch ein bisschen an den Ballermann. Schaute man aber nicht herunter zu den Badenden, konnte man die grandiose Aussicht bis zurück nach Napoli geniessen. Insgesamt ist die kleine Touristenstadt sehr hoch am Berg gelegen. Nach einem tollen Start mussten wir leider feststellen, dass das bevölkerte Sorrent eigentlich nur ... read more