We had a quick breakfast in the Lido Restaurant and then disembarked the ship and made our way to the railway station where we purchased our tickets and boarded a train to Sorrento. Neither of us had visited before and as we had been to Pompeii fairly recently we decided to visit this famous coastal town (Seagulls over Sorrento) and to take in Herculaneum (the other famous ruins near Naples) on the way back. The journey to Sorrento took approximately 1 hour and a half. Located on the Penisola Sorrentina, over steep white cliffs, the town has been a favourite tourist destination for centuries. Very little of the ancient town has survived to the present day. Many excavations have revealed that the city was once totally surrounded by walls made of the local tufa rock. Today part of the walls and remains of some of the gates can still be visited. We called in at the information office outside the station and obtained a map and return train timetable.
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