It's funny how quickly we forgot about how exhausting and difficult travel can be.(and how tired we were of paying tolls on every road around here..ugh) After our family trip up north, we were thoroughly exhausted and thought we wouldn't take another trip for a long time. Apparently, a long time is a day and a half. We drove to Sorrento via the Amalfi coast.
Sorrento is a touristy town on the coast of south Italy. The streets were still decorated from Christmas. I love how enthusiastic people are about decorations (and fireworks!) here. In most towns, there are trees with lights and ornaments and light displays up and down the streets. Sorrento was no different. It was fun!
After lunch, we drove to Salerno. We had been hearing about how awesome the lights are in Salerno; also that the lights stay on well after Christmas and New Years. Because of their popularity, we were told to get to Salerno by 3 or 3:30pm just to find a place to park-lights usually go on by 5ish or so. Well, we didn't get in town until 7 because we drove the coast from Sorrento to Salerno-took around 3hrs. (The Amalfi is something we will be visiting several more times too. It's one of our favorite spots!)
Sorrento
I would have loved to take a ride with this sweet pony
Below: view of a cool road below the main street in Sorrento
Statue of Tasso. A famous poet from Sorrento
Below: sunsetting beyond the Amalfi coast
Salerno. Below: we had to drive through hoards of people
Seeing the massive crowds and the lack of even 1 parking spot, we decided to drive around Salerno a little to see what everyone was talking about. We could barely even see where to drive but we saw a few light displays. It was cool. We were content, so we drove home. Exciting, aren't we? Remember, this is the family that fell asleep before midnight on New Years Eve while staying in Florence, Italy...ahhh!!! haha
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