By the time we got up and going the weather actually improved with just a periodic light rain. We headed towards the center of town with what we thought was a pretty good idea of our destination. Turning down the street that I thought was the right one turned out to be the wrong one. We stopped in a coffee shop and asked about “Mozarella”. One gentleman, apologized for his English, which he spoke very well and tried to tell us that he thought any factory would be closed at that time. He recommended that we try the Conad story for good fresh Mozarella. Don’t buy in the plastic bag. Not good.
We headed up in the direction he told us and found the Conad was a great store. Much better than the Il Supermercato that we’d been shopping at. It had a deli, fresh bread and way better looking produce.
We decided we come back by on the way to our apartment and Mary said she wanted to roam a bit. Down a couple narrow streets we eventually got to a nice 4 lane section of road that I recognized from Google maps when I was trying to see if we could walk between Piano and Sorrento. We could and we did,
As we walked we found a little public park that overlooked a ravine with and awesome building perched right on the edge. It turned out to be a religious retreat of some sort.
Further on and now in the town of Sant Angelo, we came upon a bunch of 4 and 5 star luxury hotels that were also on the cliffs above the sea.
We thought about having some lunch as neither of us had had breakfast but the one we decided on, even though a sign outside saying one of the restaurants had pizza, a lady that Mary asked about it said that they didn’t have pizza. Maybe I was underwhelming in my attire.
We continued on to Sorrento, the whole walk was around 4.5 miles round trip and eventually decided not to eat with the masses in town but to try another place that we’d walked by on the way. It only served sandwiches so we tried another. Kitchen closed for an hour and a half. Okay, strike three and we’re heading back to Piano
Once we arrived, we went to the grocery that we’d found and picked up some fresh mozzarella, olives, focaccia, salad and cream for Mary’s morning coffee.
Had lunch/dinner on our patio and watched the local police stop people for license violation. Between it and the weekend traffic we were entertained.
After dinner we walked over to the park across the street to watch a gorgeous sunset and explore the gardens.
Rainy day turned into a great day with an unexpected but fun walk over to Sorrento.
Tomorrow we’re gonna try to hike to the Siren’s Castle that Ulysses built to honor Minerva for saving him from their songs.
Ciao for now.
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