We departed Rome on the train, the Circumvesuviana line, travelling along the Amalfi coast down to Sorrento. We spent a full week there and just fell in love with it. Sorrento is beautiful, easy to navigate and centrally located to visit Pompeii, Positano, Amalfi and Hercolano. It's also not a long train ride from Rome.
We stayed at the Hotel Mignon in Sorrento: http://www.sorrentohotelmignon.com/
It was very nice and pretty centrally located in the town. It was about 4 blocks from the train station and another block from the main shopping/dining street in town. We weren't brave (or insane - depending on how you look at it) enough to rent a car....so we walked everywhere. Sorrento is small enough to easily walk through it while looking for restaurants or shopping.
Sorrento is known for their lemon groves, and subsequently, their Limoncello. I didn't really enjoy Limoncello....it's very strong. But this is the place to try it! You can see a ton of lemon groves from the train....lovely. Here is the website for the Limonoro - the premire Limoncello maker in Sorrento, and where we bought our Limoncello souvenirs: http://www.limonoro.it/home_eng.htm
We had sliding glass doors in our hotel room that lead out to this patio - right off the patio was a lemon grove:
As Italy is also known for great leather goods, I found an awesome store in Sorrento and purchased a leather purse....it is one of my most favorite material posessions. Here is a link to the store: www.concettapane.it
Tomorrow, Pompeii.
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