Dad is great. His knee is bothering him a bit, but he is hanging in there. We arrived at our hotel, the Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria in Sorrento and after a bit of room negotiations, we both have wonderful rooms - we both have rooms with balconies with ocean views.
The hotel has a grand entrance where you walk through a path of roses and orange trees to get to the entrance. You are walking through a path of perfumed oranges and flowers to the most lovely old hotel.
Dad walking the entrance
View of the hotel patio
Hotel lobby
This afternoon we walked quite a way down to the Grande Marina to see a different marina than where our hotel is situated. We were hungry after our bad airplane food, and had a wonderfully simple tuna and tomato sandwich on a home made roll. The ocean is beautiful and the houses literally hanging on the cliffs is so gorgeous! After our 5 mile walk down and up uneven steps t0 get to the Marina Grande, we were a bit tired.
We went back to the hotel, and sat on my rooms balcony and shared a glass of wine while looking out at the ocean.
Dad iced down his bad knee and we treated ourselves to the most wonderful meal. We went to a restaurant called Il Buco, which is an old part of an old (yes everything is old) cathedral. It is actually the wine cellar of the cathedral that is now a fabulous restaurant. So, for the gourmet Webers, here is the menu:
Lemon risotto with fresh buffalo mozzarella, shrimp tartar and a bit of mint, also drizzled with a prawn reduction sauce.
Sea Bass over a home made wheat bread, and various veggies.
A wonderful red wine from the region rounded out the meal; I ordered a wild strawberry meringue for dessert and Dad tried a bite.
The atmosphere of the old brick wine cellar and the lovely murals inside was truly so lovely, I can't begin to give it justice in my description here, but we did have a great time and I hope the picture the waiter took of us turns out.
What a trip of a life time!!
Tomorrow is the Isle of Capri if the weather cooperates, but even if it doesn't, I don't think you can have a bad day in Italy.
