Sorrento Thoughts

20 May Food
Tonight we went out for a special group local dinner.   We tasted several local dishes.  For antipasta we had a plate divided into 3 with eggplant in tomato sauce, tomato with fresh buffalo mozzarella, and octopus salad with bits of young octopus sliced up with lettuce and potatoes.  This was followed by fire baked pizza bread and pizza maguerite (which is pizza with tomato and cheese).  After that came mussels, and I tasted them but don't have the acquired taste for mussels.  I asked for calamari and had the best calamari I have ever had.  Roger and I ate it up, yum.  Next came the pasta course with smoke cheese filled ravoli in a tomato and shrimp sauce.  The shrimp were tiny.  After the pasta came the main course, which was fish with potatoe.  The white fish was rather strong and everybody had bones in their fillets.  Dessert was a sponge cake in a sweet white like glaze, along with a taste of the local limoncello.  While we were eating three dancers demonstrated local dances.  The music was rather loud for the space we were in.  The dancers had a very small space to perform, so I never did get a good sense of the uniqueness of their regional dance.  To me it was a lot of canasta sounding by the two men and tamborine banging by the lady, as well as red shaw twirling.

Random thoughts:
How do we get to our room:  up 5 floors in an elevator to the lobby, then down two floors on the steps or in another elevator in a different part of the lobby, then walk through a maze and back up some more stairs to another level, followed by two lefts and down the hall to room 323.  The hotel is a collection of several buildings, our best guess is 10.  So it's a maze of hallways and elevators.  The oddest thing is to get to the lobby, and then on to your room.  There's a 5 level swimming pool, which also is reflective of the hotel.  The water temperature was 73, which is too cold for me.

Our group is warming up to each other.  Tonight was amusing watching what some folks do after a day of siteseeing.

It is very different watching CNN international with the US weather report.  They are intrigued by tornados and the "horrific destruction these weather events cause."

Hopefully the rain will hold off here, today was "lovely" per our Australian folks, tomorrow rain is predicted in the afternoon.

Apples are E2.99 per kg or $1.42/lb.  Bananas were $2/lb in Sorrento.  It's no wonder Europeans like coming to the USA as things less expensive.  Additionally fuel prices are outrageous.

More another day.

I regret I'm having problems with uploading pictures.