Globus Tour, June 21 - on the mainland to Sorrento

I'll add some photos to this later on . . .

Back on the good old Globus bus to the ferry station, and cross the sea from Sicily to Messina.  Then a long long ride through some farming country, with a brief reststop at an Agip for the tiniest espresso ever.

We zipped past Amalfi and the coast and found ourselves in Sorrento - facing a hotel entry that was really a long tunnel.  Perhaps the town of Sorrento is on such a cliff that tunneling from the road to the hotel was more practical than using valuable surface land for a driveway?

We had a really lovely room overlooking the pool area on the left and a large patio area with many tables, chairs and couches well spaced from each other.  The rest of the afternoon was unscheduled.  It was a short walk into the town.  There is one wee street too narrow for vehicles, but crammed with shops of all varieties.  And like the street, the shops were also narrow but long.

Today's schedule called for an open-air dinner, after touring a shop that sold inlaid wood pieces.  Too bad that there is so much selling being pushed at us.  It's not my preference, and besides, I was never big on accumulating lots of stuff.  So - - the dinner was in a fairly large square beneath a tent.  It was a fixed menu - like all of the other group dinners, you ate it or not.  But it was a very pleasant evening  We sat at two very long tables.  A wandering guitarist stopped to serenade several of the diners.  And the weather was perfect, the town was quietly buzzing, and the food was good - not memorable but good.