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Jul 28, 2025

Italy

Italy. Fabulous organisation by Rich and Lou as always! We are so time poor we literally told them Amalfi coast and maybe Sicily and they presented us with a fab itinerary of gorgeousness to fit our budget! Our friends are always flabbergasted that we trust Rich and Lou but we just DO! They never fail to get the holidays bang on. We do a bit of research just before we leave on where and what to see and eat but the locations are always spot on. They listen to our needs and this time we had to cater for: -one teen who wanted instagrammable locations! -one adult who wants history and culture -one teen who wants to dive off rocks and go on boats -one adult who wants to see everything and have an adventure! Half the team love sun and half can't cope with it so needed aircon! We had a blast and everyone loved it! We started our big birthday adventure in Sorrento. The hotel is a short walk to the train station. We traveled in daily did excursions from Sorrento. One on the ferry to Positano which was ace. We ate in the main town and also in the marina grande (which weirdly is the smaller of the harbours!) the piccolo one is the big horrible one. 🤷🏻‍♀️ go figure. Marina grande is lovely for views and seafood. Alpha was a Lovely hotel. Did fabulous pizza. Had a brilliant pool with lots of shade and gorgeous seating in a large shaded garden. The hotel were really helpful and suggested that we don’t go to the beach at Sorrento but that we go to the beach near the hotel. Which was so much nicer. We had to pay to go to the beach club. New experience but lovely. Think it cost us £35 pp and we had to pay for two parasols! They gave us towels though. Then Pompei. Weirdly much nicer town than we had been prepared for! The hotel was brilllllll. The website is really bad. The hotel is so much nicer than the website! We ate there and it was delicious. We decided to get a train to Naples from here as we had a whole afternoon free. Easy to get the train. Again at the end of the road. Had a fab afternoon in Naples. Pompei. Amazing. So glad we stayed overnight. We got up super early and were in the gates by 9am. Back in air con by 2pm! Next flew to Sicily Villa Felicia in Sicily near Noto was lovely. Really relaxed and all the staff super chilled. The pool was gorgeous and we had access to their sister resort down the road with two more pools one of which is salt water and very big. We decided our pool was better tho! Breakfast amazing. Best we had. The evening food was a bit too fussy for our kids so we went out each night to nearby fishing village that we loved called marzememi. I wouldn’t have wanted to stay in marzememi though as it’s heaving on a weekend. All the locals and holiday makers head there! Heaps of restaurants, really pretty spot and lots of good people watching. We did a boat trip that was amazing that the hotel recommended. Lots of snorkelling and we found star fish and octopus with our guide! Also visited the historic towns of Syracusa and Ragusa ibla. Fab gorgeous towns. And went to the beach! Gorgeous sand and waters. The hotel lent us parasols and we hired beach towels from them. Thank you. An amazing adventure. We had an absolute blast. Ate loads of cake and ice cream pizza pasta, fish, calamari and lobster!!! A fab way way to celebrate turning 50. Xxx