The Town of Sorrento

We were hoping to go to the Isle of Capri today, but first, we had a little business to complete:  Ron had forgotten to return the key to the hotel in Rome so we had to figure out how to mail it back.  We walked to downtown San Agnello and looked in almost every store to buy an envelope to mail it in.  (The key was actually quite big and heavy.)  Finally an “Ink” shop took us to a “Paper” shop (he even walked us down to it since we were unable to understand his directions in Italian) and she had a small padded envelope for just 25 cents.  Then we went to the Post Office and got a number to get in line.  When we got to the counter, although the lady did not speak much English, she understood what we wanted to do and had a cardboard mailing envelope, just like the priority mail envelopes in the USA.  So for 7€ we mailed it back.

San Agnello town square

  This turned out to be a good activity since it allowed us to get acquainted with the small town of San Agnello which we liked very much.



A Sorrento busy street

    By then, we were quite tired and as it was too late to consider going to Capri, which is really a day trip, and we really needed a “free day” (like Rick Steves talks about) so we walked to downtown Sorrento (about 20 minutes) to acquaint ourselves with it; the weather was beautiful. 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorrento's harbor

Sorrento hotel views

 It is a seaside city and after we walked down to the harbor on the steep cliffside path, we looked around to figure out how to get to Capri on another day; then we had a delicious lunch at a restaurant on the water: la Scogliera.

Along the cliffside

Scooters everywhere

   










We were able to eat outside in so many restaurants and this was especially enjoyable by the water.



Appetizer .. we got full even after that

The waiter debones and scales Ron's roasted bass

 

Delicious fish lunch

Grilled vegetables are delicious

Fortunately, the bus to San Agnello goes down the curving path down the cliffside to the harbor, so we were able to just easily take the bus back up the cliff and to our hotel.