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| The VIA R. REGINALDO GIULIANI July 23rd |
Never underestimate the surprises offered up in the Bay of Naples
We arrived in Sorrento in the blistering heat of late
afternoon and that was how it was for two glorious days before the rain.
Now I am used to those Italian thunderstorms which come out
of nowhere, rage with the full force that nature can devise and are over as
suddenly as they came.
But in that brief few minutes the sky darkens and the low
rumble of thunder becomes defeating as streaks of lightening flash and the rain
just comes down like stir rods.
All that we had and hailstones too which even the locals
claim were bigger than anything they had seen before.
Then in a matter of minutes the storm had passed leaving a
carpet of fast melting hailstorms and a few broken leaves.
But as ever the storm had cooled the air and cleaned the
streets, so that the evening stroll on Sorrento was a pleasant affair despite
the crowds of tourists who were all intent on capturing that little bit of
Italian life.
And Sorrento did not disappoint, all of which is why we
returned the following day.
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| Eating in the VIA R. REGINALDO GIULIANI |
We took in the odd museum and a fair number of narrow
streets each with a bewildering number of shops offering all manner of stuff to
entice the tourist and which were pretty much replicated in the next half dozen
streets.
All of which led us by degree to VIA R. REGINALDO GIULIANI
and a meal at one of the many restaurants that spread out across the road from
its beginning to the point when the it becomes too narrow.
The meal was good and of course the position offered up
plenty of opportunities to sit and watch.
It cost just €70 which for four seemed acceptable until that
is we sampled the delights of Naples a place I have fallen in love with.
Rome will always be my favourite city which has the power to
draws us back but Naples is something else.
But that is for another time.
Pictures; Sorrento, July 2014, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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