Headed to Sorrento.

From Pompeii we drove to Sorrento. No main roads, just twisty mountain narrow roads with lots of rush hour traffic. Nearly 2 hours to go 60 miles. There's just no other way to do it.

Finally got to our hotel, which is a big, fancy, kind of formal thing late afternoon. Our room is beautiful and has a view of the bay and a small balcony.

That's Vesuvius in the distance, by the way. It's a very nice, big, bright room. It's about 1/4 mile walk down into town, and then further depending on where you want to go. I'm hoping to get up early one of the mornings and walk the whole thing.

We went out for a very strange dinner. It was in a 16th century building off an alleyway. The food was okay, but the service was really weird. The waiter looked like Abe Vigoda (still alive, as far as I can tell) and he was very difficult to communicate with. He was assisted by a young guy who seemed to need to ask Abe how to do anything. We were also visited by a guy, a greeter of sorts, in a black, sparkly cowboy hat. He was very friendly, though not necessarily appropriately so. The whole scene was strange.

Sorrento was hopping by the time we got out of dinner. The Italians don't eat as late as the Spanish, but they're close. The streets are pretty deserted at 6 but are very busy at 8 and most of the shops are open. It seems like a nice town.