MO goes Around the World

Sorrento

Good morning Sorrento.

The area around Sorrento has lots of ruins. This visit I chose an excursion dealing with the present.

A local farm.

The farm grows two varieties of lemons, olives and chestnuts. Livestock lives there too! Several pigs, a 3-month old calf, chickens, and two pregnant goats ( their job is to keep the undergrowth minimal under the fruit and nut trees.

A sampling of their products.
One of the sweet, pregnant goats.
Three of the “little piggies.”
Vegetables growing under the olive trees.
Southern Catalpa Fig Tree
Amalfi lemons. This variety is large, sweet and juicy.
Sorrento lemons
A persimmon blossom, I think.
All of the lemon trees in the grove are grafts from blood orange trees so the trees are stronger. There are trees in the grove over 50 years old!
Ernie, our guide and son of the owner, walking on the scaffolding that holds the netting in place.
Various cured meats in the cellar.
Wine is made on the farm with grapes imported from Sicily. It was delicious.
Lemonade was served after the tour along with bread and homemade marmalade.
And then there was a three course lunch.
I opted to walk back to the port from the where the bus dropped the group. This was in a store window along the way.
A view of the Sorrento port from the top of the wall with Azamara Onward in the distance. My plan was to take the elevator down. But I opted for walking.
A really cool beach along the water opposite the port.

Tomorrow Civitavecchia. The port for Rome. No firm plans. I heard from one of the World Cruisers who was there during the circumnavigation of Africa that it was packed with tourists. Perhaps I will go in a shoulder season.

Marianne Harris

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