Sorrento/Capri

Tuesday was to have been a down day, just sitting resting, which we did in the morning. At lunch time we wandered down to the beach to find something to eat and met a delightful elderly English couple from Wimbledon (picture above). They have been coming to this area for many years. They gave us some bus tickets and we decided to take the local bus to Capa di Sorrento, which is the end of it's run. Took close to an hour and we enjoyed the scenery and interacting with the locals. There wasn't a lot to see at Capa di Sorrento so we decided to walk to Sorrento. We basically took our lives in our hands because there is no sidewalk, just a narrow, single file strip at the side and cars, buses and scooters were whizzing by. Along the way we stopped in to a beautiful hotel to use the facilities. The scenery from the dining room was spectacular, looking over the Bay of Sorrento. Most of the hotels have nothing at the road level except an elevator taking you down the cliff. We met up with a Scottish couple and chatted with them for a bit before finding the bus and heading back to our little place. Sorrento is lovely but very busy and touristy. We are congratulating ourselves on our choice of B&B. Meta is much quieter than Sorrento.

Back at the B&B we sat out on the terrace and chatted with Gareth and Heather and were joined by Paul and Andrew who are from Halifax Nova Scotia. We decided to go out to supper together and had a wonderful meal at Grillerie del Casale. Back home we all sat on the terrace and stayed up way too late drinking wine.

Yesterday (Wednesday) we went to Capri. The island is beautiful, quite spectacular in fact, but there is a lot of hill climbing and it is very touristy. Lots of high end stores, Gucci, Prada, Svorski and the likes. We got home around 6:00 and went out for supper again to the same restaurant as the night before.

We have to leave this B & B today but don't want to leave the area so we may try and find a B & B for tonight and travel north tomorrow.