London to Italy in under 4 hours

Its brilliant to live in the UK because its so easy to grab a flight to anywhere in Europe for cheap, and for a short flight! We caught an early train right near our place on the West Hampstead Thameslink that took us directly to Gatwick Airport in about an hour and was soon on a plane to Naples Italy, which in itself was only slightly over 2 hours. At the airport we had our first drink in the hot sun while we waited for our bus to Sorrento. I must say that it was very ideal that we travelled with our backpacks (which up until this point we only ever used for camping) on this trip as it made the entire journey very easy.

Our bus travelled along the coast and we came upon this beautiful view of Sorrento and we instantly knew that we could look forward to a fabulous time.

With the help of the GPS on Syd's blackberry we figured out where to catch our shuttle to the hotel and we booted to the spot right after we got off the bus. We were the last to board the Aminta shuttle (aka coach bus) and it was good that we did because our hotel was set way up on the hill and is a good 15 minute hike uphill. You can see our hotel at the very top of the hill in the picture above.

We settled into our room and then caught the shuttle back down to Sorrento to go out for pizza and pasta for dinner. Our first dinner was just a taste of the authentic pizza to come, so needless to say, we were super pumped!