SORRENTO: Having been a tourist resort since the Roman emperors came down this way to beat the summer heat, Sorrento is of course touristy, but not in an oppressive way. There's something relaxed about the town planning here - perhaps it's the absence of grand, must-see monuments, but whatever it is, there's obviously no tourist trail, no queues stretching into the sunset. Just blue water.
In essence, we picked a perfect base from which to set out on the Sentieri degli Dei, along the Amalfi Coast, and then to Capri. This will take three days altogether, but it's great to be based in Sorrento - not half the tourist trap you might imagine. Add to this my discovery that the small town was the birthplace of the great Italian renaissance poet, Torquanto Tasso - under whose oak tree I sat on numerous occasions on the Janiculum hill in Rome - and the propitiousness of the place seemed to me complete.
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