AMALFI COAST, SORRENTO

It was another very early breakfast in bed day as we had to be up! 

We were docking in Naples and were booked on a tour to Positano, Sorrento and Pompeii.

It began with an awesome bus ride!

I have total respect for the bus drivers who drive along the stunning Amalfi Coast.

Somehow a road has been carved into the cliff (that, in itself, is mind boggling) and depending whether we were on the way there or on the way back, we all had arm ache clicking our cameras to get shots of the villas and hotels perched on the cliffs and of the Med, twinkling 500 feet below us.

 Our first stop was Positano on the most spectacular stretch of the coast.

The Galli Islands,that used to belong to dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

Positano, The Virgin Mary.

After a short stay in Positano we reboarded the bus and made our way to Sorrento.

  Brozie and Wills had visited Sorrento the week before we were there and had told us how picturesque Sorrento harbour was but we were pressed for time as we had had strict instructions not to get back on the bus until we had had a margherita pizza. Husb was not complaining. Strange, that.

Having had ALL the details ALL the way there, of how to make the perfect pizza including how NOT to slice a tomato but to merely squeeze it, and how NOT to use anything other than the finest mozzerella cheese (and none of this ham and pineapple malarkey and DEFINITELY NO SEAFOOD shock horror) it seemed rude not to visit his highly recommended best friend's pizza place (pizza was invented in Naples after all) so basically we didn't have long to look round.

We went inside this church...

...but didn't have time to visit the Picasso exhibition.

The cheeses were immense.

As were the lemons.

A particular kind of lemon MUST be used to call the lemon liquer LIMONCELLO 

and the recipe uses only the rind of the lemon not the juice.

There was Limoncello everywhere! Every shop! 

Naturally we bought a couple of bottles home.

I vaguely remember buying a selection of liquorice but that DIDN'T make it home. :)

We really liked Sorrento.

Next stop - POMPEII!