The Entrepreneur's Travel Log

Sorrento and Positano, Italy by Scooter

"Oh, beautiful Sorrento. You won't ever want to leave." One of my past clients said to me before I left for my trip. Well, she was right. This was by far one of my most favorite trips on the entire excursion throughout Italy.

Once Mark & I landed at port, we jumped a water taxi to Sorrento. Our first order of business was to find a scooter so we could make our way over to Positano on the Amalfi Coastline. After getting lost three times trying to get out of the city, we finally made it into the country and the most amazing views of the Amalfi Coastline.

The Amalfi Coastline is a magical windy road on the side of a mountain with old towns and little castles which are now hotels, restaurants and night clubs nestled into the rocks overlooking the ocean. We even found little "towns" carved into the side of mountains like replicas. If there hadn't been a big bus on our tail I'd have taken a picture.









After driving for hours taking in the scenery, we came back to Positano, Italy for lunch. The city is quite dense and packed into the hillside (see above pictures). We found a section of town with restaurants that have great views of the ocean and settled on one for lunch. This is where we discovered "rocket lettuce." It's a slightly spicy lettuce grown locally that is delicious. So we enjoyed a wonderful locals lunch of bread, fresh rocket salad and chicken. Italian bread is melt-in-your-mouth good.


After lunch we began to make our way back to Sorrento. Now I had heard that Sorrento was a "must have pizza" area so I went in search of great pizza. We found this piazza where we could people watch and enjoy some authentic pizza. After returning the scooter we walked down to the ferry area and marveled at the century old castle. We had to climb about 100 stairs to get down and we imagined knights and merchants doing the same thing (we do have active imaginations!)

The ferry area has another awesome view of the old walls and castle as well as boats that are docked for fishing. See the picture below that has water and a wall? At the top of that hill is a five star resort that is our next Italian trip destination! All in all, Sorrento was one of my favorite stops. Many people on our cruise didn't go there at all and when we shared our great experience they realized that the Amalfi Coastline is not one to miss! Plan for a few days to really get the full experience!

posted by Melanie Strick @ 8:51 PM