The taxi driver was not our best of the trip. He was on the phone constantly, and because he was using Bluetooth through the radio, we heard every word! We wished we knew Italian: it would have been interesting to know what all those arguments were about. There were also a lot of tunnels on the route he chose, one of which was over 5 km long. Not much scenery in a tunnel, that's for sure.
But we emerged to overlook the peninsula on which Sorrento makes up the tip (far right in the picture), and then wound our way down to the town itself. Sorrento is a cute town with narrow streets. After looking around a bit and buying some souvenirs in one of the shops, we had lunch.
We started a "Pizza Index" to compare pizza in various places. On our scale, a Pizza Hut Thin 'N' Crispy Pepperoni is a zero (0), which leaves room for -4 (worse) to +4 (better). We had already tasted pizza in Venice (-1). Sorrento did better: My pizza with Italian ham was a +2, and Leigh's with sausage was a +1. And that's despite the fact that the sausage itself tasted spoiled and she scraped it off. The crust, sauce, and cheese were that good!
After lunch, our driver took us to Positano. We stopped at an overlook above the town, then drove through it. If we thought Sorrento streets were tight, Positano was more so. There was a one-way street down into the town, and another one-way street back up. It was so interesting to see how the houses were built right into the hillsides, and the bay was beautiful.
At last we made our way back through the tunnels and back to the ship for dinner.
No comments:
Post a Comment