[We’re on the road again. For the rest of the day our lives would be in the hands of our bus driver, Luigi. 🙂 We were headed for Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast.]
[The supervisor will knock little old ladies out of the way to get us a front row seat on the bus. Great for photos ops! 😉 ]
[The supervisor, in spite of her desire to be “up front,” closed her eyes for most of this trip,]
[The Sorrento peninsula and Amalfi coast highways are more conducive to travel by Smart Cars and motorcycles than buses!]
[Not fond of the overhanging cliffs – but this is pretty much what it’s like all the way to Salerno – maybe farther?]
[Protection from rock slides?]
[The long and winding road.]
[Will always be an all-time favorite place . . . 😉 ]
[What I said above (well, I had to make sure I had the shot!).]
[A fond look back at Vesuvius.]
[And a fond look forward at houses hanging out over the sea.]
[It comes with a view.]
[Circling around Sorrento – but we’ll be back!]
[Many scenic overlooks . . .]
[But not many places to pull over – particularly if you’re a bus!]
[A small town on the tip of the peninsula.]
[Where we are, where we were, and where we’re going. We’ll turn around at Positano, couldn’t make it as far as Amalfi on a day trip. 😦 ]
[I can’t remember the name of these little islands, but they were named back in the time when gods ruled the planet.]
Hang in there, Luigi!!!]
[Somehow struck me as not the best place for a farmers’ market?]
[Our first glimpse of Positano, the vertical city!]
[I don’t know how you stop to look at the map – this is the traffic lane.]
[Parking is at a premium in the vertical city, so you park on the roads on the way into and out of town. There is no bus parking.]
[Our only available shot of Positano, built up the side of a cliff!]
[Positano is probably best accessed by boat.]
[Coming back up after Luigi hung a U-ey.]
[Back to Sorrento for lunch and touristy stuff.]
[City street.]
[We’re walking again . . . into the town center.]
[Maria leads her famished flock to restaurant central.]
[The choices were . . . well, everybody scatter. Meet back here in an hour and half?]
[Little squares with . . .]
[statuary abound.]
[We gotta go back to where those flags are – looks like a view!]
[Hmmm, this street looks promising.]
[The sign says . . .]
[A pizzeria . . . and Salvador Dali? Isn’t he Spanish? 😉 ]
[Another little square with statues . . .]
[A popular photographic subject. 😉 ]
[Thirsty, and excited (?) for lunch, we found a little restaurant down an alley just off the square. 😉 ]
[So happy together . . . A restaurant staffer volunteered to take our photo. The other staff laughed – said the guy fancied himself quite the photographer. He ran around taking photos of us from every angle!]
[Back with camera in hand. Hey, Weakie – note our marghertia pizzas. Just like one at the top of the previous post!]
[Back at the square with the popular statue. It appears that its stand has “legs.”]
[The view that cemented Sorrento’s standing in the polls as No. 1 as my favorite beach place on the cruise (over Mykonos and Cannes).]
[Just lovely.]
[Down another little alley, we found the Astoria! Fans (?) of the blog may recall that the supervisor and I met at the Astoria condomium in Arlington, Virginia, some 26 years ago.]
[Looks like a nice place.]
[The Astoria (center) in Arlington, Virginia, lest you forgot. 😉 ]
[And now off we go in search of Maria.]
[There’s light at the end of the tunnel.]
[Oh, only 2:55 – we still have a half an hour.]
[We found town center again!]
[Time to round up the crew and head for home.]
[Back at the Naples port.]
[Anne & Bill paid a short visit to the castle museum; the supervisor & I went up for a nap.]
[Home, sweet home.]
Up next: Probably homecoming, then Rome.
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