Your Guide to Embracing the Travel and Vacation Mindset
For someone who loves to run, a trip is not an interruption of the routine so much as an upgrade of the scenery. There is something magical about seeing a city at your own pace, before the day officially begins. It is the same place everyone else will experience by noon, but you get the quiet, golden-hour version all to yourself.
There are meals you remember, and then there are meals that rearrange your idea of what a meal can be. Mine happened on a pebbled beach on the Sorrento Peninsula, somewhere between a swim and applying more sunscreen, and I have been thinking about it ever since.
I’ve stayed in plenty of luxury hotels around the world, and I’ll admit it: I have standards. High ones. So when I say the Grand Hotel La Favorita earned a spot on my “I would absolutely come back” list, that means something. Yes, it ranks among the most expensive hotels we’ve ever booked. But by the end of our stay, no one in the family was doing the math anymore. Here’s why.
When it comes to food, Italy is famous for the 3 P’s of carbs: pasta, pizza and pane (bread). Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast served up plenty of all three, but there was so much more to discover too, enough to satisfy every craving on the trip.
One of my favorite things about Sorrento is how much shopping there is to do. I could have spent hours just looking at all the lemon everything, the pottery, the little trinkets that make you feel like you’ve bottled up a piece of the Mediterranean sun. So much to buy, so little time! Check out my complete Sorrento and Amalfi Coast haul.
