• Keith Eckersall
  • Jayne Eckersall
  • Keith Eckersall
  • Jayne Eckersall

Sixty in Sorrento

A 7-day adventure by Keith & Jayne Read more
  • Trip start
    September 16, 2017

    Sixty in Sorrento

    September 16, 2017 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    02:15 start seemed like a really good idea when we booked this holiday. Never mind holiday started with a bang well 2 bangers and a full English breakfast 😁06:00 out of Manchester for Naples gives a full day. Finally got to the hotel around 14:00 after a chaotic arrival at the airport - I suppose the Italians would say it was highly organised!!. Hotel not really what we were expecting and our balcony is bigger than our room. At least it is warm and very sunny when the clouds go 😎Read more

  • It started with a storm...

    September 17, 2017 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Grey skies, thunder and rain that's how to day started and breakfast wasn't much better. No porridge and no tea at least the latter the waiter was only joking. These Italians you have to love their sense of humour. Walked into downtown Sorrento and booked a trip for tomorrow. Check in tomorrow to find out where I am spending my birthday.....
    Fortunately the sun arrived later as did the cruise ships.
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  • Sixty today

    September 18, 2017 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    What a beautiful day woke up to a beautiful day in Sorrento with cards and tickets for Phil Collins then Jayne floated my boat over to Capri for the day.

  • Lunch in Capri & not Lytham Capri

    September 18, 2017 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    Found a lovely little place for lunch. The Capri Palace where they ran out of star ratings and had to put an L for Luxuriously. Lovely pizzas for the young (only 59) lady wife and myself and then treated to a diabetic unfriendly cake with a candle....... really couldn't believe how kind everyone was there and we only popped in for a look around and a spot of lunch!!!.Read more

  • Capri and beyond (back to Sorrento)

    September 18, 2017 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    After lunch more sight seeing before a boat tour of the island then back to Sorrento......and a quick Black Russian (cocktail) before bed. Well you are only 60 once ... next year I'll be 59 🤣

  • Rain rain go away come back....

    September 19, 2017 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    ...another day.......preferably next week 🤣
    Woke up this morning and someone had pinched our scenery and left it persistently raining 😣😣
    Jayne "don't forget the umbrellas"......

  • We can't hang around the hotel..

    September 19, 2017 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    Fortunately by the time we had finished breakfast the scenery was slightly visible and the rain had stopped. Shuttle bus in to Sorrento to get the train Ercolano to visit the remains of Herculaneum after Mount Versuvius blew it's top taking out Pompeii as well on 24th August AD79. Very strange walking down streets from over 2000 year's ago with some buildings and decor largely intact.Read more

  • Rest day in Sorrento

    September 20, 2017 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 17 °C

    Weather told us to take a rest today, so lazy start due to rain and wind. After breakfast walked into Sorrento on the basis the lower down the mountain the less wind there would be.......no!!! And it was just as cold when the sun wasn't shinning. Jayne took advantage and bought something warm after I suggested she might want to run back up the hill to the hotel for her cardigan!!!! So now we have walked virtually every street and looked in every clothes shop in Sorrento 👗👕👖👜👛👚👠👡🛍..... fortunately in the afternoon the weather became better, warmer and sunnier 😎 ending in a nice sunset...Read more

  • Safe arrival in Amalfi

    September 21, 2017 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    Amalfi named after the region but not as pretty as Positano....... Spot of lunch watching the world go around a roundabout, a Bride and Groom have their wedding photos taken in the marina and finally a look around before joining the queue waiting for the bus to take us back to Sorrento........will we make it???Read more

  • Final day and final photos

    September 22, 2017 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    A day of relaxing around the pool before hitting Sorrento for one last time and a late lunch / early dinner over looking the harbour. Spent a delightful couple of hours with new friends from Baltimore. But alas the food wasn't equal to the company. Final walk round and discovering new streets and shops for Jayne to visit. Then back early for the bus to the hotel to make sure we got on. Then our journey home starts at 4 in the morning........can't wait!!!!Read more

    Trip end
    September 22, 2017