Vica

Siesta

by barryg23

At midday the streets of Sorrento become much quieter than usual, as tourists escape to the beach, and locals take their Siesta. This can be a good time to explore the town - if you can handle the heat.

Transport option along the Amalfi coast

by Ina08

If you are looking for means of transport along the Amalfi coast (Salerno, Sorrento) this website helps you to choose between ferry and bus.

http://www.amalficoastweb.com/amalfi/english/bus_ferries.html

For train connections see the Circumvesuviana website which gives information about travelling from/to Napels.

http://www.vesuviana.it/web/en

Award-Winning Pizzas

by Jetgirly about Pizzeria Aurora

Pizzeria Aurora is centrally located in Piazza Tasso, and serves fifty varieties of award-winning pizzas! I had a vegetarian pizza with tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and mozzarella cheese. It was definitely worth of an award! The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner, with longer opening times than others in the area. Don't buy an overpriced dessert- grab some gelato at the nearby Gelateria Davide instead.

Herculaneum

by SallyM

It's easy to get to Herculaneum from Sorrento via the local 'Circumvesuviana' train service to the modern town of Ercolano. It's a 10 minute walk from the station down to the excavations.

Far less of Herculaneum has been excavated than Pompeii. It is estimated that the overall area enclosed by the walls was 20 hectares, of which only 4.5 are open.

It was buried in volcanic mud, rather than the ash which covered Pompeii (likened to rice crispies by our guide) which has led to the preservation of organic artifacts (fabrics, furniture and the structural parts of wooden buildings, including upper floors).

Make sure you have a bottle of water and a hat if visiting in the summer - it gets very hot.

sorrento

by ablphillips

"arriving in sorrento"

arriving in naples was a little unnerving as I had been watching the news while in rome and seeing riots happening and problems with rubbish collection luckily I met a very nice gentleman who escorted me from the train and showed me to where I could catch the circumvesuviana train. the ticket to sorrento only cost about $5/6 AUD and it took about an hour to travel from naples to sorrento.
I got off the train in st agnello 1 stop before sorrento and walked to my bed and breakfast "mami camilla"