To wrap up Italy, I thought I would share a series of portraits of some of the people we met and came across while traveling. I must say that native Italians are every bit as warm hearted, caring and kind as I imagined them to be. To me, this is why traveling is so important [...]
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Laundry + The Camera
October 13, 2008 – 1:25 pm
Anyone who has backpacked to another country knows that you have to pack light because all you think about is that you have to carry this big backpack everywhere!! So about 8 days into our trip our clothes were really needing a good washing. =) So while in Sorrento we found a laundromat…and of course [...]
Sorrento
October 12, 2008 – 9:55 pm
Back to Italy…we stayed in Sorrento for three nights, Sorrento is located in Southern Italy, part of the Amalfi Coast. Sorrento was our home base from which we did Pompeii and the Island of Capri excursions. To get to Sorrento we took a ferry from Naples, it was about a 45 minute boat ride. Sorrento [...]
Capri
October 10, 2008 – 2:08 pm
For another excursion we left Sorrento by ferry and went over to the island of Capri. This really was a beautiful island, we walked around, had lunch at a little cafe and people watched and then took a boat tour around the island.
Pompeii
October 9, 2008 – 2:17 pm
From Tuscany we took the train to Sorrento which is a little coastal town. We stayed in Sorrento for three nights. We used Sorrento as our home base to visit other areas of the coast. Our first stop was Pompeii. Remember back in elementary school learning about Pompeii? Back in 79 AD, Vesuvius which was [...]