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More from Sorrento

So this excursion was offered by Joe Bananas and was Sorrento, Positano and Ravello with a lunch at a hillside restaurant in Positano called La Tagliata.

I now have some time and will be finishing the review. Sorry foe the delay, been totally occupied.

Sorrento

Some shots along the way from Naples to Sorrento.

We met our guide outside the restricted port area and he led us to a little bigger bus that held all of us. Our guide Paulo spoke flawless English and our driver Francesco a classic Italian male. Great team. We started out for Sorrento, a simply wonderful Italian town ans one of our favorite places .

Off the ship looking for our Joey Bananas team

This guy was the greeter on Lido aft greeting people as they came off the elevators. In all our years of sailing Carnival, I have never met anyone as up eat as this guy. If he could bottle his upbeat enthusiasm, I would buy a bottle.

The weather was projected to be iffy at best, but turned out partly cloudy, which turned out to be perfect. It was another early off the ship day.

With covid, and vaccination requirements changing during the time from originally making the reservation till sailing, the number of people going fluxed up and down till we ended up with 15. The night before we got to Naples a woman in our group (the only couple who had not paid the cost back to us) came up to me and said they changed their mind, they were not going. 😵 I explained that the price had already been split by the number of people going (which made her 🫤). Suddenly a couple walks up that we had met online and after a brief discussion, they agree to take the place. 😅

We have been to many of these ports a number of times, and Naples certainly fits in that category. During a stop here 6 years ago, we did our own excursion privately with Joey Bananas. When we asked our group if they were interested in doing it and we would coordinate it in advance. Most were and we reserved 3 10 passenger vans for the Sorrento, Positano and Ravello with lunch at LaTagliata.

Thanks!

Next up, last day in Naples, or can you say Joey Bananas

Out on the balcony, caught Stromboli showing off in the distance. IMG_3884.MOV

Some pics from the shop that night.

After the great day, back on the shop and one of our party had a birthday, 79 I Believe. .

So I am back to finish up with the review. I have the last day, debark and trip home (now that is a story) to do. I apologize upfront for the dump and run, but pressing issues took priority (more on that later). So where was I????