Showing posts with label sorrento. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sorrento. Show all posts

southern hospitality

February 26, 2010
well, i am officially behind in posting photos in a timely manner,
but it's sort of difficult to keep up when you go to 5 cities in 5 days.

anyway, to write a little bit more about our wonderful first night in sorrento:

when we first got to sorrento, we wanted to eat at the "trattoria da emilia" (because 1- rick steves recommended it and 2- it only seemed perfect since we had an emily with us). unfortunately, once we found it it was closed.

however, things have a way of working out- and in a funny way. as mentioned earlier, we ended up getting pizza that night at a quaint little restaurant. we each got a pizza then traded a third with one another to get this:

it was tricky.. but we did it.

emily and her frutti di mare

annabelle and her vegetariana

me with my shrimp, pecorino, and arugula

we sat right next to the pizza-making station so we got to watch
the pizza-guy do his thing. since we all did a pizza-making session,
we joked that we could do the job ourselves.

being the friendly people that the southern italians are,
the restaurant staff spoke to us and asked friendly questions
then told us to take a photo next to the pizza oven

as seen here

then, we joked about how we each made italian pizza once,
and before we knew it...

emily was making pizza.
in the restaurant.






the finished product

and since we were way too full to eat anything more,
emily went around and offered slices to
the other customers in the restaurant.

i think they liked it (:

i don't think that anything like this would EVER happen in the north.
not that the people up here are mean,
just that southern italians are much more open and welcoming.

in this last photo,
we're all pretty astonished with what just happened,
holding our complimentary, first-ever limoncellos,
and happy as can be.

sorrento

February 24, 2010
during my weekend trip, my friends annabelle, emily, and i stayed in a cute little hotel in sorrento as our base for exploring the rest of the area. i'm really glad we did this because 1- naples is scary at night and 2- it's really easy to get to naples/pompeii from sorrento with the circumvesuviana train.

oh yeah, and sorrento itself is pretty adorable.

emily and annabelle!
i couldn't have been happier going with anyone else.

mediterranean (!) beach at night

the seaaaa

our drinks at dinner.
guess which one's mine?
that's right.. i'm 6.

yummy yummy pizza
leafy green section: arugula, pecorino, shrimp
in front: vegetarian.. spinach and tomato?
top left: frutti di mare!

p.s. the naples area is FAMOUS for it's pizza.

p.p.s. - more about this pizza later


i apologize for the lack of sunlight in these photos...
i was only in sorrento either late at night or in the early morning.

but it's still the most darling little beach town-
even in winter.