sorrento & the amalfi coast

We had just three days for Pompeii & the Amalfi coast.. so much to do so little time! We based our stay in the town of Sorrento, at the start of the Amalfi coast. There wasn't much to do in Sorrento but I enjoyed strolling through the highstreet in the evening. 

The town gets top marks for being Christmassy!

Our hotel overlooks this ravine which has a beautiful abandoned building inside it. There are stairs down the side of the cliff-face and a bridge connecting the cliff-face to the building, everything was quite overgrown and abandoned. It looked very beautiful and rather mysterious. At night it also looked haunted & a bit creepy.

We hired a car for the Amalfi coast. The whole road hugs the coast, and driving along the narrow and windy roads was a bit unnerving sometimes. Our GPS kept getting confused and many times it thought we were in the sea. The weather was great but and the views spectacular! 

We went searching for the "Footpath of the Gods" - a hiking trail near Positano. Unfortunately our navigation skills (and our Internet) failed us and we couldn't find it - but our walk took us to some nice vantage points anyway.

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We did meet this friendly dog.

After abandoning our search for the Footpath of the Gods, we drove to the town of Amalfi where we had a little picnic on the beach.

Amalfi is quaint and village-y but also very touristy.  The major tourist attraction is this cathedral which annoyingly closed at 3pm in winter - just as we were about to go in.

Cool little fountain in Amalfi.

Back in Sorrento - for dinner we found this popular pizzeria where we had some fairly mediocre pizzas on our first night. We realised though that pretty much every Italian at the restaurant was eating just prosciutto with mozzarella cheese and pizza bread. So the next night we came back and ordered that. Wow what a simple but absolutely delicious combination that was! 

And that concluded our Italy trip! Short (well, for me) but sweet!