Today was our last full day in Italy. We spent the morning shopping in Sorrento, picking up souvenirs and lots of Limonchello. We packed our bags and said goodbye to Pepe. He extended an offer to any of our family and friends if you would like to visit Sorrento (20% off if your stay if you book directly with him). He gave us a lift to the train station and we started our trek back to the Rome airport. With all the transportation logistics, we were prepared to take our time and wait if something went wrong (especially since we didn’t have any tickets). Wouldn’t you know that everything went smoothly, even better than we could have hoped!
We arrived at the Sorrento train station about 5 minutes before the next Circumvesuvianna left for Naples. Once in Naples, we purchased tickets (2nd class this time) on the Eurostar to Rome. The 2nd class seats weren’t as comfortable or as wide as the 1st class seats, but it still beat the pants off any of the Amtrak trains back home. The train to Rome left within 10 minutes of when we arrived in Naples. Once in Rome, we again had perfect timing and stepped on the airport express train mere seconds before it departed the station. We arrived at the airport and made our way to the hotel bus stop, where a shuttle arrived within 5 minutes and whisked us off to the Hilton Garden Inn. We had a great room looking out over the busy runways of the Rome Airport, and enjoyed using the first fast internet connection we had seen in two weeks. We ate a leisurely dinner at the hotel, then re-packed our bags and drifted off to sleep.
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