Beautiful Sorrento

From Pompeii we meander through the Italian countryside to Sorrento, where we bunk down in a hotel with our own individual marble balcony overlooking palm trees, and a huge piazza with a marble floor and a very large swimming pool. Talk about luxury. In the horizon, at sunset, we can see the shoreline of Naples, across a bay of the Mediterranean.

The streets of Sorrento are so narrow that our bus, which is amazingly versatile, was exchanged for smaller vans so we could be transported to our hotel and later to our six course Italian extravaganza. The restaurant where we dined overlooks a small fishingf port with dozens of small fishing boats waiting for their owners to brave the dangerous sea to supply people like us with a catch of the day.

We can't praise our tour company enough. Grand European Tours really goes the extra mile for our comfort and for a reasonable price. Case in point: hiring special buses in Sorrento so we can be transported through wonderful narrow cobblestone streets to our hotel and to our six course Italian extravaganza. .

We dine on six course Italian meal and are serenaded at oceanside, with plenty of Italian wine. Later, we then sleep soundly.