Sunshine, laughs, and great people.

Sorrento, Positano, Capri- Almafi Coast

To start off, I just want to say that literally each day here is better than the next. Whether I do nothing but workout and go to class, every second of every day is enjoyable.

My weekend in the Almafi Coast was possibly one of the best weekends, yet.   

Me and Tara were hesitant at first to book this trip because we know we will be visiting south of Italy with Nonni and Nonno and Uncle Johnny in May.
But when can we say that we spent a weekend in Sorrento, in our own bungalows with orange and lemon trees right outside our door, with our good friends?
We arrived in Sorrento around 2am and woke back up around 9 for our Friday spent at the beach in Positano.
Taking a bus up into the mountains, we arrived in Positano. Walking through the tiny streets, filled with small shops cafes, we were making our way down to the beach.
All of a sudden, we run into a crowd of people, silent, walking in a straight line down the small side street we were taking.
I notice a priest and 6 men carrying a casket. It was a funeral procession.
Pretty cool to see that happening.

We spent the day in Positano on the beach playing games and hanging out. Around 5 a group of us were getting ready to head out for the next bus, back to Sorrento. It's about a 30 minute ride and I wanted to get back to the hotel to shower, so I went with those leaving.
We get on the bus and all of a sudden I had to pee so bad.
Never had to pee this bad in my life, I literally could not wait until we were at the hotel. They kept saying, 'Karina we have like 10 more minutes, just wait you'll be fine.' But I couldn't. There was no way.

I decide to get off at the next stop and just hop on the next bus that comes. I knew where we were headed and it was a straight shot back to the hotel.
I go to the bathroom and decide to walk a little instead of waiting for the bus.
Well, I ended up walking at least 3 miles down the street, alone. I stopped inside a few places to see if I was for sure headed in the right direction. I knew the road I was on was the same road we took, but I just wanted to make sure. Every where I went in didn't understand what I was saying. I stopped by a cafe I passed and three guys were standing outside.
They tell me to hop on this next bus I see coming down the street. So I do.
Sitting next to a woman, I strike up a little conversation with my minimal Italian and she ends up knowing of the hotel I'm staying in. She tells me to get off at one of the next stops and I will be close. Nope.


Still ended up walking about 30 minutes until I spotted an upscale hotel. On the verge of hitch-hiking, I run inside to ask for a taxi. They tell me it might be expensive, but at that point I didn't care.
I hop in a cab and arrive at our hotel an hour and a half later than everyone else and 30euro poorer.
I see a few of the guys hanging outside and lounging on the hammocks. They see me and start laughing, then ask if I'm okay. All I could do was laugh because this all happened with me not being able to hold my bladder.

Anyway, besides that adventure, we ate at one of the best seafood places right on the water. I got marinated salmon and a side of eggplant parmigiano. My favorite. The girls all got different seafood dishes and we sat around there for the night.

Sidenote; Mom- Tara said your eggplant parm was better than the one I got that night. Good job.

The following day we set off for Capri around 8am. Walking into the town of Sorrento, we got onto a ferry that drove us to the island. I could not wait to get to Capri. After being there 4 years ago, I was so excited to get back.
We had the option of joining Bruno on a hike up to a high view of all the island and doing some cliff jumping. Or, taking a boat cruise around the island, in and out of the little caves and possibly swimming. I did the boat cruise.

It was awesome, we had our own boat with a captain and a little deck area to lay out. We arrive back about 3 hours later and get the best sandwich I've ever gotten. I think I've said that about 3 paninis I've had, but literally this Caprese sandwich from the island of Capri was unreal. We walked up to Anacapri and walked around, seeing some of the best views of the island.

We headed back on the ferry to Sorrento, hung out at our bungalows, and met in the lobby for dinner and to go out at night. 

On the way back to Sorrento on the ferry, there was a Napolitano guy named Antonio, who went up to Bruno and had him introduce me to him. He worked on the boat and lived in Naples, 21 years old, and spoke a little English.

Another sidenote- Bruno is a 70 year old priest who is good friends with the man who owns Euroadventures (Shaun). Whenever Bruno is in Italy, he stays at Shaun's place and travels to all the Almafi trips and helps out with some tours. He is such a great man. He reminds me of Nonno.

I thought this was funny that Bruno was trying to get me to talk to this guy. A few of us were talking to Antonio and we said we would be going out that night in Sorrento.

We get to the outdoor bar after dinner and we see Antonio and his friends. It was fun talking to them and meeting all these Italian guys and girls and to practice our Italian, and not just being with other American's.

We ended up watching the sunset before dinner on and out Saturday. We come to the piazza where Bruno told us to meet him and he had plastic cups with jugs of wine waiting for our whole group. He's the best.

On Sunday, Bruno was taking whoever wanted to go to Pompei and Mt. Vesuvius to see it all. I already saw Pompei so I didn't really want to.
Me, Tara, Cathy, Pat and Cam decided to hang by the beach and walk around Sorrento. The beach was blocked off, so we went to get awesome pizza and walked around the downtown area.

I had so much fun the entire weekend. The weather was the best it could have been. Food was awesome. And the people we were with were so much fun.

Cam made this cool video of some of the trip, I attached the link below...Me and Tara are all over it.
We had a blast, couldn't have asked for it to be a better weekend.
Almafi Coast with Euroadventures, April 4-8th VIDEO