Kelle, Jeff and I decided to tackle the traffic and go into Sorento for the day. Coming through from Rome was a nightmare. The roads are super narrow and there was a lot of traffic and then just people walking along the shoulder. There are not a whole lot of sidewalks in this part of Italy. In fact only what we would consider city streets have sidewalks but not any of the main streets don’t have them even though they are barely 2 cars wide and one lane is often used for parking. But surprisingly the touristy area of Sorento was on our side of town so it wasn’t even a 15 minute drive.

Sorento is really cute. There is a nice pedestrian area with restaurants, gelato, shops and sorbetto stands. One was a wide main boulevard the other two were more like alleys which gave it a more Italian feel.

The first stop was the church. Unlike others that we have seen this one was done mostly with wood veneer marquetry. The front doors were all done and then several of the small side chapels had it as well. There was also a big diorama in the front of a Jerusalem scene. It was nice and different from any of the others we have seen.

From the church we just started wandering and shopping. Surprisingly other than my day out at the designer outlet and the leather school I had not done much shopping. I made up for it in Sorento. It is a shopping Mecca. Especially if you want linen beach wear. They also had great pottery and some of the veneer marquetry. All of which I bought. Kelle stole my good idea for mom which was a bright scarf. It was sad to look at ornaments and not buy her one. But all I saw were breakable and that is not what her tree needs. I might have to give her the one I bought for myself and just hope it is not too heavy for her tree.

We saw a nice photography exhibit of black and white photos of just Italian street life. there were some really nice ones. I considered buying one to go in my travel wall but instead bought a nice Italian scene done in the veneer.

We saw a lot of the extremely large lemons. I don’t know how good they would be but I did try the one my sorbet was in and it was a little sour. The skin is not as bitter which is why it makes good limoncello but the lemon itself was very similar to ours.

We found a nice little spot one street off the tourist square for lunch. I had the shrimp and calamari. Forgetting for a moment that they fry the shrimp shell and all. I don’t really like for my food to have eyes but I powered through. It makes no sense to me why they would fry it when you have to take off all the batter when removing the shell. It was still good but not as good as Kelle’s mussels. I should have done that. Kelle and I shared a litre of white wine and all was good.

After lunch we had no the sorbetto. The one on Capri was better (more creamy) but this one was still good.

We decided to get a little more meat in case we needed it at the villa and of course more wine before heading back. While I was waiting g on them in the wine store I saw a man carrying a big dog in a satchel.

We called Angelo and he came and got us and dropped us off just down the road from the villa around 5:30. Just in time for us to get ready for dinner.

We had found the place that said they would come and get us and bring us home after dinner earlier in the week and they finally responded that they could do it today. So we had dinner plans at Funiculi Funicula at 8 with a pick up time of 7:45. The owner picked u up right on time and everything went smoothly. The dinner was delicious. We shared the seafood pizza for an appetizer. It was a little different. Mussels and clams in their shell on a pizza with just sauce no cheese. It was actually quite good and I would order it again. I followed it up with some raviolis and chocolate gelato.

All in all a good day.