Honeymoon Day 5: Relaxing in Sorrento

After three full days of sightseeing in Rome and a day of travel we were ready for a break in Sorrento.  We had almost four days on the Amalfi Coast and I had big plans for three of them.  We quickly decided that Friday would be our "off" day.  We also decided it would be a laundry day.  But first we decided to explore our hotel grounds after a breakfast overlooking the Bay of Naples.

Part of our view during breakfast

Outside the hotel

Tribute to the gods on the front lawn

Hotel garden

Enjoying our terrace before heading out for the day

We were staying at Parco dei Principi which is approximately a mile from the town center and a little further then that to the port and train station.  We discovered quickly that the hotel shuttle only ran a few times in the morning and again in the evening and that a cab cost close to 16 Euros even though it was only a mile!  As nice as the hotel was, if when we go back to Sorrento I think we would choose to stay closer to town.  Walking is of course an option but we found after a full day of sightseeing (or when carrying bags of laundry), walking another mile was generally the last thing we wanted to do.

After walking the grounds we decided to gather our laundry and head to town on one of the morning shuttle runs.  We had purposefully only packed clothes for a week with the plan to do laundry about mid-way through the trip.  We found a place to do laundry and chatted with an older American couple who were traveling for three weeks through the country while we waited for our machines.

Happy to have clean clothes!

 While the clothes were cycling through we explored Sorrento.  Sorrento has an adorable town center and side streets full of ceramic shops and little markets with delicious looking produce.  We decided for lunch we would buy some of the unbelievably cheap tomatoes and cheese and make salads on our terrace back at the hotel.

Sorrento town center

I wonder if Disney knows they have a store in Sorrento..

Hill above the town

After our laundry was finally done, we grabbed a cab to take our clean clothes, food and some wine back to the hotel.  It was a nice afternoon so the husband put together some salads and we enjoyed lunch on the terrace.  It was the most relaxing thing we had done since the trip started.

Fresh salads with Mt. Vesuvius in the background

We spent most of the afternoon enjoying the terrace before heading out to dinner in the town square.  The restaurant we went to seemed really nice and we did enjoy parts of the meal, like the seafood.  But the pasta we had was the most disappointing of the trip.

Seafood appetizer

Gnoochi that tasted like it came from a can

After dinner we wandered through the streets and explored some of the little shops before taking a cab home for the night.