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Lets Go to ... Sorrento, Italy!
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items The Holiday that is on a constant loop in my brain and has both me and my Fiance constantly saying “we really need to go there again”
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Travel and Accommodation
Day Trips
Food
Tips
Travel and Accommodation
This is Officially the only holiday I have ever booked with a travel agent and I am so glad that I did. We went to Italy in 2022 after my solo trip during Covid was cancelled, as you can imagine- i was terrified of this being cancelled as well so wen...
Booking
All I knew was that I wanted us to go to Italy and we were working on a budget- so it was a vearly morning flight from london for us, which meant an even earlier drive from the south west! The flight was probably only 3 or 4 hours but had the most st...
Flights
So, trying to be prepared, I arranged for us to be on a group transfer to the hotel…however it never showed. So there was me, my boyfriend and one other couple, all wandering around looking for this transfer- all dressed for UK April mind, not the wa...
Getting to the Hotel
So we were initally meant to be in the Grand Flora but due to Covid, they has been shut and We were reallocated to Hotel Conca Park (thank you travel agents! i knew there was a reason i used them!) THIS HOTEL WAS INSANE:
a) 4 star as opposed to the ...
The Hotel
Day Trips
Obviously we had to go to Pompeii - anyone who knows me knows i'm a huge history nerd so this was a must! It was so easy to get to- you can get the Circumvesuviana Train from sorrento to pomeii so easily and it was so cheap! You just get the train ti...
Pompeii
As I am obsessed with ancient history, naturally we didnt do just Pomeii or split the day between the two places- nope we had a whole day for Herculaneum as well. You get the train from sorrento again and will a little help from google (or actually j...
Herculaneum
A day I cannot forget was our boat trip to Capri which we booked with TUI! The boat company were amazing, they knew everything about the sites you saw on the boat, took you past the blue lagoon (option to go in), packed you a lunch and found the best...
Capri small boat experience from Sorrento
Even if we didnt get the small boat out there- the day in capri was amazing. There obviously is all the designer shops and celebrity looking which we kind of bypassed because we found some amazing hidden wonders. So just coming into the main town (he...
Capri
Food
When in rome..? or rather sorrento! Obviously we had to have some gelato and we had two favourite spots. One was down on the sea front (follow the hill all the way down), although it was windy and slightly chilling in an april evening, sitting and watching the boats and sunset was perfect, and the gelato flavours were so rich!
our second favourite was right by the train station- after getting lost on the train by missing our stop, it was so late when we got back to sorrento however the gelato parlour by the train station was open and it was exactly what we needed!
our second favourite was right by the train station- after getting lost on the train by missing our stop, it was so late when we got back to sorrento however the gelato parlour by the train station was open and it was exactly what we needed!
Gelato
Now who doesn't love a hotel bar? whilst we only ate a few nibbles at this bar, they couldn't have been more helpful! So I very smartly booked our trip to finish the day my Masters dissertation was due and because I am me, I naturally left way too mu...
Hotel Bar
If you love an good photo opp or even just love to experience something magical- PLEASE GO HERE! You can sit outside, in a lemon grove under a sky of lemons and fairy lights. It also is known of its cannelloni which were absolutely lovely and felt tr...
O Parrucchiano La Favorita
The food here was so fresh and they had a lot of meals focused on buffalo meat and cheese- which was phenomenal! They also were so good at making sure we were aware when we ordered that the meat was buffalo which I did appreciate! It was perfectly pl...
The Restaurant Inn Bufalito Taverna
For the life of me- I cannot remember where we went on our second night in sorrento however I know it was a Pizza restaurant, and honestly with so many in the town centre- you cant go far wrong!
On the note of Pizza, on the walk down hill to Herculaneum, there is an amazing lunch time restaurant which did amazing pizza right by the entrance to the site which was a perfect stop off for an early lunch!
On the note of Pizza, on the walk down hill to Herculaneum, there is an amazing lunch time restaurant which did amazing pizza right by the entrance to the site which was a perfect stop off for an early lunch!
Pizza
Tips
Really easy train to take- it literally goes sorrento to naples, so if you miss your stop like we did you can either get off and get back on the opposite train or we just stayed on it until it went back (not sure if you're meant to do this!) The staf...
Circumvesuviana Train Schedule
My main tip is please be prepared with shoes! It is so easy to spend the whole day wandering around sorrento or on day trips and the ground is often cobblestoned or uneven- stable shoes are a must!
Shoes
If you're like me and have the luck but also disfortune to have thighs that always end up rubbing in the summer…please bring loose trousers or shorts under your dress because by the end of the day in Capri (where I threw a dress over my swim suit) I ...
Thigh-Rub!!