SORRENTO BY DAY

We arrive back to the Sorrento Port where we are shown which bus to jump on. Before this I have to rush over to the local tour guide and shove some money into her hand for her services. Even though she was annoying at times she was actually quite helpful.

Now it only gets better. Picture this - we are squashed onto this tiny bus, pressed against one another as we are heading to some wood demonstration in the town centre. Half the people on board look like they are about to throw up as the bus is speeding down the narrow streets.

The bus dumps us near the wood factory where we are greeted by Cabbage Patch. Cabbage Patch looks satisfied as she hasn’t had to deal with us all morning.

The entire group look exhausted as we hike up to the wood factory. We enter to watch a wood demonstration. The entire demo only look a few minutes before we were given free time to shop around to the factory.

Looking at the prices I figured I wouldn’t buy anything. However I must admit the furniture was quite nice. Especially the dining table which opens up to a poker slash roulette table. We spotted the Good Olds starting to make random purchases. They brought some wooden music box and paid an arm and a leg for it. Those two don’t understand the word budget!

Lucy and I realized we need to get out of here before our credit cards come out. We started strolling towards Sorrento town square. It was boiling hot and Lucy looked like she was about to collapse any minute. She decided to sit down at a bench while I walked off to find an ATM.

Sorrento Town Centre

Now this is the challenge – finding an ATM in Sorrento town. You think it would be easy right? Well no! I spent over 20 minutes walking around Sorrento looking for one. Who the hell doesn’t have an ATM in the city? Instead I kept running into tour people. I spotted the 81 year olds buying random crap at one of the stores.

Main Street of Shops in Sorrento

Sorrento town was small. You had all your cafes and restaurants packed together while there was only one main hidden alley way for shopping. Here you would find anything from daily needs to souvenirs.

A random alley ways in Sorrento

Giving up on the ATM, I walked back to discover Lucy still sitting at the bench about to pass out any minute due to the heat. We started walking back to the bus when I stopped to take random photos of a sunken palace look a like. Lucy headed straight to the bus and who can blame her. It was like 40 degrees today and the heat was getting to my head as well.

The Sunken Palace.... haha

After my quick photo shoot I discovered a pastry shop to which I entered and brought Lucy and myself some Italian pastries. We needed the sugar rush ok!

Standing outside the wood factory our bus driver finally arrived and the entire group was ready to cheer as it has been a really long day. The best part was Umberto, our bus driver had the air con on and the bus was like entering a freezer.

A short drive later we arrived back at our hotel for siesta. By this stage I was craving for a shower. It’s been a long day. Grabbing a shower we relax for a while before its time for dinner.

The below photo is from our room:

This is the inside of the hotel: - very classy!


We arrive to the dining room to settle at a table with the Good Old’s. I don’t think we have actually had dinner with them yet. Well we haven’t really been given the chance from Diane and Will.Random conversation developed with the Good Old’s and this is when we were introduced to Good Old’s mother. Good Old’s mother known to compete with her daughter on any disease she raises. For example if Good Old told her mother she has the flu, the mother would out do her daughter and tell her she has bronchitis.

The ultimate was when Good Old told us that she had cancer. Apparently when she told her mother she had cancer her mother turned around and stated she thinks she has cancer too. Who the hell competes with their daughter like that about cancer of all things???

Things just got worse from that moment. Good Old told us she offered to buy some random dog a sandwich she discovered on the streets. She dragged the poor dog to a café and brought him a sandwich to only discover the dog belongs to that cafe. Meanwhile Lucy is screaming her head off that Good Old has never brought her a sandwich. In conclusion the dog was more important to Good Old then Lucy. Lucy wasn’t sandwich worthy!

Just as dessert was going to be tossed onto our tables there was a huge fuss in the dining room. For a minute I thought the entire hotel caught on fire as people were rushing outside. It wasn’t a fire but a sunset. We got caught up in the moment and rushed out with the entire group to view the sunset. Lucy started screaming she wanted the room key as she needed her SLR for this. I handed her the key and I have never seen the woman run so fast in my life. Lucy disappeared as the rest of us continued watching the sunset. I pulled out my mobile phone and filmed a bit of it. It was definitely relaxing watching the sunset. Well as relaxing as it can be with the entire group going psycho taking photos and screaming things to one another.

Sorrento Sunset

As the sun faded away, Lucy came storming back. Ron decided he should take a photo of us with the faded sunset. So we stood there while he took pictures of us which turned out with our face being dark and faded. Eventually he got the flash to work and we had a photo. About bloody time, I was ready for dessert after this fuss.

Scoffing down dessert we headed back to our room to pack for the next day. Tomorrow we are heading back to Rome and we will have our farewell dinner thing.

I was just getting comfortable in bed, relaxing when Lucy swung the balcony door open and started screaming her head off. Jumping out of bed in a panic, once again I had no idea what was happening except Lucy screaming CAMERA CAMERA.

Without questioning, video camera in my hand I stormed out with Lucy to see this:

Random Ship sailing past our hotel

We stood there staring at this ship video camering and taking photos. In fact majority of the group was on their balcony watching the ship as it sailed away. Once the ship disappeared we rushed inside, slam the door shut and crashed...

Well not before making a call to Christine. Lucy dialed the numbers and within seconds we started screaming " I have to tell you something about Milan... Kath fell and she knew what she was doing... and then we started naming everyone on the tour group."

We crashed while laughing....

Back to Rome tomorrow.......