Campania Region Dos and Don'ts

You either love or hate Naples, but if you hate it then once you get to spend time here, you learn to love it like I do. The city is a tourist gem. The locals sum it up exactly " an open-air museum" With every turn, there seems to be something on the street that belongs in a museum. And the actual archaeology museum is one of the best I have been to. Some of the best gigantic sculptures are here in addition to the finds from Pompeii and Herculaneum. What is even better is that the place is all yours since the tourist traffic is vey low. The bay, the old town, the Phegrean fields and the nearby amalfi coast makes it so ideal to spend a summer here.

What a beautiful place to visit!! Make sure you take a boat tour around the island..and of course, join the locals on the beach!!

Enjoy the local smaller shops, restaurants and cafes. Take taxi or tourbus as the roads are very narrow and Italiens do not drive like people from other places.

Sorrento itself is pretty, and has many great restaurants. Be careful of the smaller towns nearby - I loved them, but there is often no footpath, and people tear around corners on scooters, so it can, in reality, be very, very dangerous. Somehow though, it always works out fine...the locals adopt that attitude as well. Nice place.

This was our home away from home while my husband and I backpacked through Italy. We left and came back to this little town so many times that we were well known with the locals. We loved it because of the amazing campsite (at the end of main sreet and up the hill a kilometre), the 50 different gelato shops, the warm bread and cappuchinos in the morning, and the centrality to many other towns - only a short scooter ride away. The main street is lined with designer boutiques and it shuts down at night to allow pedestrains to shop and eat late into the night. This is a town so comforting that you may never want to leave...trust me!