"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place. Like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again." - Azar Nafisi
I’ve never been anywhere where I have felt I truly belong,
then I went to Sorrento and everything changed.
Suddenly I appreciated my surroundings so much more.
Admittedly (and embarrassingly) I’ve been lucky enough to go to many places
with my family yet until a few years ago, I never appreciated it as much as I
should have. Going to Italy changed this. I was faced with a completely unique
place with unfamiliar surroundings, people, food, language and architecture… A
completely different way of life which was immensely appealing to me.
We stayed in a hotel called Conca Park which was just a five
minute walk away from the heart of Sorrento, Piazza Tasso. Here we spent
countless hours people watching whilst sipping on cocktails or cappuccinos and
window shopping, dreaming about the shoes and handbags we would buy if we could!
Wherever you went, the fresh scent of lemons filtered into
your senses, something that even just writing about now I can smell fondly –
filling me with comfort and wanderlust. I find myself reminiscing about this
when I’m feeling low, or just fed up with the grey and cold weather that has
seemed to go on forever here in England!
I miss you like crazy Italy but I’ll see you soon. Arrivederci!