Long Drive to Beauty Sorrento

Now for the longest drive of the trip 4-5 hours! But you know what, the car is air conditioned, we are not walking our feet off, and we are sitting down, not too shabby. We will take it as a rest period for us. And we are heading south to a beautiful part of Italy along the Mediterranean Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast!

We leave Assisi and head south down local roads which go through small little cute towns which do not sign as well as we need. So we have to stop a couple of times to ask directions and always they are so very helpful to stop what they are doing and point the way. We drive on the Autostrada after we reach it half way to Naples. Travis is driving and he has really gotten into the swing of things. Before he took over Bud also was a great driver on the roads and I took a part in driving in Florence. So we drive on the outskirts of Naples and it looks pretty rough. Lots of poverty and not very nice to look at but we will be back to see if we can find Desigual a Spanish Clothing Store which Travis has discovered and Carleigh loves it to. I actually like the clothes Travis bought so I would like to see it to.

We get down into Sorrento and what I thought was going to be a small little town is huge with lots of people, scooters, motorcycles, and shops and restaurants. But we have a little bit of paradise in our hotel, Hotel Cristina. It is yellow with lots of windows which sits up on the hillside of Sant Angello right next to Sorrento. It overlooks the Bay of Naples and Naples and Mt Vesuvius behind Naples. What a beautiful view we have from our balcony for three nights. It is so incredible! We are on the first floor, the lobby being on floor 0 and the restaurant is on the 5th floor and the swimming pool is on the 6th floor and has the same beautiful view over the town and the Bay.

On the way down we stop at Pompeii and tour the town that was covered in ash and all citizens killed. It was lots bigger than I thought and it was so neat to walk down the cobble streets that they walked and shopped. It was so very hot again, in the 100's so we decided we would not spend two hours going up Mt Vesuvius. Good decision!