Sunday in Sorrento

This apartment is on a main road. Many of the previous renters comments on the internet have referred disparagingly to the noise. They were not wrong, but we slept. The next-door bar had nice croissants and coffee, They have a wi-fi network but the lady did not know the password. I tried to find out if another person would be coming to work some other day but with no success. We set off into town, past all the touristy shops, to a place with a wonderful view of the bay. It is called the foreigner’s club and the waiter who served us was well and truly over all the tourists. He was grumpy. The cups were not particularly clean, the tea had no tea bag, the coffee had long-life milk. We wandered all around and finally got to the fishing port and ambled around, looking at the locals, the boats, the other tourists ( less than in the main part of town) . We had a nice lunch of very fresh seafood. We wandered back a different way and found a nice café which had a free wi-fi network that had been recommended to us. After a long rest we wandered out again for food.

On the way back to our apartment we passed several bars absolutely crowded with people and discovered that Napoli was playing a match. The people next door were having a party and the next door bar was filled to capacity. The noise when Napoli scored a goal (or a near miss) drowned out the traffic noise! At some point in the night there was a huge noise – an electrical storm had come to continue the night time noise. It is now raining with lightning a little way away. We have decided not to go to Amalfi and will potter around here.