Meta di Sorrento looked like something out of a movie. The small town beach with a local mom and pop restaurant and beach cafe. The gorgeous balcony overlooking the beach. The non stop rain. Unfortunately for us the first two days of our beachfront spot were spent stuck indoors. Much of the small town shut down for the day and the only place we could find that was open was the grocery store. With the bouts of rain and rough time we had had in Pompeii we felt it would be the perfect time to catch up with our families, watch some netflix, maybe even get some school work done.
That plan fell apart when we discovered we had no wifi. Now I understand that wifi isn’t everything. But when you’re in a foreign country with no or a very limited cell plan, you don’t speak the language, and the entire town has shut down because of rain it does get a little more difficult.
Our second day of torrential downpour turned around slightly as we discovered how to change our TV from Italian to English and the proceeded to watch a marathon of criminal minds and SVU. There was one break in the rain where we hopped over to the local market for some Ice Cream.
Finally, on day three, our luck turned around. We woke up to sunlight streaming in the windows and no forecast of rain. We quickly packed up bags for the beach and took the cobblestone path down from our Airbnb.
Our day was spent eating snacks, listening to music, hanging on the beach, and the occasional dip into the ocean. It was so nice to finally have a day that we had hoped for. As the sun began to set we walked back up to our Airbnb for the evening. Only discovering the terrible sunburns we had gotten once we were inside and our sunglasses were off…a price I would gladly pay for our day on the beach.
On our last night there we walked over to the next town over to pick up some takeout. Once there we got two large pizzas and some of the best arancini balls I had ever eaten. All of which made an excellent dinner and an even better breakfast before heading back into Rome for the next leg of travel.
