Return to Italy - Rome, Naples, and Sorrento Part 3

So here we are at Part 3 (Part 1 or Part 2 here) of this exciting adventure travelling around parts of Italy, as I said in the last post we went back to Naples to get our boat over to Sorrento. While we was in Naples we had a look around the market, It was very busy and crowded down little side streets.

We had to go to the Port of Naples to get our boat. There was so many huge cruise boats docked here waiting to go back off. Our boat didn't really take that long to go over to Sorrento around about 30 minutes. You got a nice view of Vesuvius while travelling along.

Port of Naples

Mount Vesuvius, the boat had dirty windows 

Once we got over to Sorrento, I was amazed at all the stray cats again. There was so many of them just sitting around near the dock of Sorrento, they even had a little bed. It was so cute, some of them even was hopping on and on buses.

We made our way up to the top and to our hotel. Sorrento is so pretty and clean, unlike Naples. All the Christmas decorations are up so that was nice we got to see that. Our hotel was along by a row of shops, right next door to a supermarket.

This hotel was called Hotel Sorrento City, it was lovely and clean, with friendly staff, we got breakfast and free Wifi.

Hotel Sorrento City

So while we were staying in Sorrento, we went and visited a few places, Capri being one. We had to get a ferry over to the island which only took about 30 minutes. After having a walk about we did one of the many boat trips they have on the port, this was a private boat trip just for the two of us which cost about €80 - €90 Euros after you tip the man doing the trip. He drove us around about half the island showing us some of the history and special places. I do recommend doing this if you enjoy boat trips, I very much enjoyed every minute of it.

Map of Capri

Another one of the days spent in Sorrento, we traveled to a place called Positano. This time we got a bus there it went around the coast, this was a really enjoyable journey also seeing the sights on the bendy cliff roads. Once in Positano we had a wonder about the shops and town. This is another wonderful place to visit if going to Italy the scenery is beautiful.

I also went for a swim in the sea here, I couldn't believe how warm the sea was for November time. I'm pretty sure this place would be very crowded in the summer time, so going in the November time was great we had the beach pretty much all to ourselves. There was some more stray cats here too.

After spending a good few hours here we hopped back on the bus and decided to carry on to the next town which was Laurito, we went down this really steep stair way which lead to a small pier at the bottom where you could do fishing I believe. Another pretty place, so many pretty places I really want to go back to Italy again.

More stray cats found in Laurito

 We returned back to Sorrento on the bus, only to find all the Christmas lights had been turned on, how lucky was we to get to see this. What lovely decorations, this town was lit up beautifully.

 We have now come to our last day, returning back to Naples to get our flight back to London. We decided to make two more stops on the way back before returning to Naples and that was Pompei and Herculaneum. Anyone that is staying near Naples, needs to visit Pompei and Herculaneum the places are amazing.

Ancient Pompeii is really huge to walk around and I was having trouble walking about at this point from walking about so many places I had got blisters so I was in a bit of pain, but I did want to see all this history so I put up with the pain. There is so much to see here, from houses to temples, baths to theaters the ruins were great. I really enjoyed my time seeing these places. The price wasn't a bad price either, you can buy tickets to visit both the ruins.

Pompei ruins

Walls of Pompei building

 Herculaneum, is smaller to walk around than Pompei but still worth the visit, you have to walk down this long path to get into the ruins again this has got ruins of houses, temples and all sorts.

Ancient Ruins of Herculaneum.

flying back, view of Naples City from above.

Well that's about it! It's over I hope you enjoyed the read the photos and got some use out of reading this three part blog, Do let me know what you think. I am still new to writing this things, but I hope it's been of some use even if you did just used it to view the photos. Thanks for reading and do follow if you enjoy these posts! Aimee

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Return to Italy - Rome, Naples, and Sorrento Part 2

Hello everyone, welcome back to part 2 of this adventure in Italy. If you missed part 1 you can read it here. So we left Rome and went down to a place called Lucrino, which is round near Naples. The area around here isn't very clean. The train stations are really dirty covered in graffiti.

Local trainline

However the hotel here was lovely it was called, Villa Luisa. It had a beauty treatment room which had a small pool area, sauna, spa, and steam room. You could also help yourself to tea. I really enjoyed this we spent each night in there, just relaxing after long day of walking about places. We also had a lovely breakfast at this hotel, the room was also very nice, double bed plus a single bed, with a little balcony. I think this was the best place we stayed in out of the 3. I would give it a 5* rating.

Villa Luisa

Breakfast Buffet

Beautyroom

The first evening here we went in a pizza restaurant, lovely food as always. I really enjoy Italian food (we had Pizza again). Very nice restaurant, there wasn't a lot of places around near our hotel to eat. This one was just round the corner.

Next day we went and visited Solfatara, this is a shallow volcanic crater at Pozzuoli, which is not too far up the train line from where we was staying. This is part of the Campi Flegrei volcanic area. This is the first place where I got to see not only 2 cats, but about 10. I had never seen so many cats together before it was so cool.

 

Solfatara was very interesting place for people who are interested in volcano's it's a nice place to visit, it didn't cost too much either. The area is very dry and rocky and there is places on the ground where steam with sulphurous fumes come out, the steam is pretty hot. It doesn't take long to walk around here, though we didn't stay too long since it was raining and we got pretty wet.

 

After going back to the hotel we then went for a walk to a lake which I believe was Lago di Averno just to have a look around, it was pretty big lake there wasn't much life around there saw a few geese and coots that was about it. It was a nice walk though. This was about 20 mins walk from the train station. Didn't manage to walk all around as it was getting late, I did how ever manage to get some nice photos though.

Other places we visited while here were an American diner & bar which we had dinner in, as we had eaten a lot of pizza, thought we should have something different, another good place to go for evening meal.

We also went down the end of the train line to Torregaveta. I think some of their lines weren't working as the place we wanted to go to we couldn't get there. But we stayed here for a while had a wonder about, saw lot of people fishing at the end of the pier. There was a small beach here too.

We then got the train back and went to Pozzuoli again but got of at another station and walked all the way back to the town centre which was a nice walk took a good hour or so. I'm not sure which stop we got off at now but walking along the coast back to Pozzuoli's town centre we came across all these stray cats again, they seem to be sleeping in the rocks on the coast it was crazy. Cats right by the sea, I was having a great time taking loads of photos of them, so many different cats.

Once we walked all the way back to  Pozzuoli, we had a wonder about, looked at the boats that were docked there. We did go find out how much it would cost to get a boat to one of the islands, but the person in the information place wasn't very helpful at all.

This was the last night staying here, the next day we had to go back to Naples to get our boat to Sorrento. Read all about that in Part 3, which will be coming up soon.

Again Thanks for reading, let me know what you think and if you enjoyed the read.

Thanks Aimee

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