The next morning, I got up at the crack of dawn to pick up a
9 passengar van for an overnight trip to Sorrento. The goal for the day was to
see Pompeii and visit the Amalfi coast. Unfortunately, I underestimated Roman
traffic and was not able to get out of the city for a good solid two hours
during morning traffic. By the time I was able to get to the Pompeii area, the
lateness of the day and the cloudy weather did not make it viable. The only
days it rained when I was in Italy was on my road trip days. Sigh.
I will say that the drive is pretty easy once you get out of
the city. The freeways in Italy appear to be toll highways. I guess many
Italians do not travel by car. I only realized afterwards that there are speed
sensors placed throughout the highway and I’m crossing my fingers that I didn’t
get a ticket.
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| View from executive loung at the Hilton Sorrento |
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| Family Suite |
The road to Sorrento off the highway actually reminded me of
my Maui trip and the road to Hana. Once we were in Sorrento, I checked into the
Hilton
Sorrento Palace. For this hotel, I was able to find family style hotel
rooms that allowed four people in a room! The hotel is gorgeous and worth the
curvaceous road along the mountains to get to Sorrento. Since everyone was
tired from the road trip, spent the afternoon in the executive lounge. For this
particular Hilton, the lounge also has its own lap pool on the roof. It was
actually one of the nicest Hilton Executive Lounges I have seen.
For dinner, we wandered to
Da
Gigino and trusting that
Zagat would not
fail us again. The service was a little slow but the seafood was absolutely
fresh. I have never had mussels that delicious and I don’t even like seafood.
The pasta was decent so an improvement over the Roman restaurants.
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| Mussels |
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| Gnocchi |
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