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(Carole Allen) wrote:

Just up the hill from Sorrento (about an easy 10 min walk from town)
is the Hotel Desiree...very nice, on the cliff, views of the water.
Staff extremely friendly and helpful. Tripadvisor still shows
positive reviews since my last trip there.

I'd only been looking at the hotels on Venere's Centro Storico section,
with the assumption that all the transport hubs were all there, the SITA
bus to Positano, Amalfi, the Circumvesuviana, the ferries and hydrofoils.

I'll check it out though.


Don't miss the outdoor vendors, on the mainland, between the main drag
and the water. Lots of lovely scarves, leather items.

Had good gelato (is there such a thing as bad gelato?) at a large
gelateria on the west side of the main drag - the grape was fabulous.

I wanted to go to the Blue Lagoon and swim (remember, Clark Gable,
etc., the movie?), but the one day I had available it was too windy
and the boats wouldn't go there.

I'm hoping for good weather in the first week of April. Hadn't thought
about swimming though. Lot of nice places with pools overlooking the
sea though.


There is a local bus you can take down the coast to Amalfi as a day
trip. I wouldn't try the drive - you'll miss all the scenery!
Sorrento is a good base for Naples, Pompeii, etc.

Do you mean the SITA? That's what I planned on. I considered the drive
for a second. Then saw videos and accounts about blind turns with
narrow roads where only one car could pass at a time.


If you get to Naples you have GOT to go to the Chapel of SanSevero.
(via F. De Sanctis, 19/21) The "Veiled Christ" sculpture is
astounding.

http://www.museosansevero.it/index_ing.html

Beautiful. But I will have to really line up my itinerary.