Amalfi

Today Krysta and I walked around Sorrento all morning and looked at all of the cool trinket touristy shops. I found the dress I saw and loved in Capri but it was 45 euros there (I only could get it down to 35 euros) so it was too expensive and I had to leave it but I found it for 18 euros here! Sadly at the Ischia markets it was 12 euros but my classmates snatched them up before I got there. There is this one street in Sorrento that has about 4 lanes coming from 3 directions and it has a partial circle and it's quite confusing. While Krysta and I were standing and deciding how we wanted to approach crossing it a police man walked up to us and said where do you want to go? We pointed to the other side of the road and he said no problem and walked out and stopped all the traffic for us.

We pet this puppy who was I think 9 months old and owned by the cutest old English man

We then decided to go the SITA bus route versus ferry to Amalfi due to the big difference in price. We got to the stop at 11:47 and the bus didn't get there until 1:15. We were not happy that the Amalfi bus was so delayed, there should have been two buses by that time! While we were waiting a police man came up and started blowing his whistle. Krysta and I were kind of confused as to what he was doing and then we saw people running out of the adjacent stores to their cars. We realized that they were parked in the bus lane and instead of giving them tickets the officer just blows his whistle to warn them he's about the ticket them if they don't show up. For one guy he had to blow the whistle 5 times but you could tell the police man was hoping he would show up and he wouldn't have to write him a ticket. I wish they did this in Canada but I don't think the system would really work there since we are never in the store right where we parked our car. 

This just shows how we spent a good hour and a bit of our day, sitting on this bench. We are done with this SITA bus.

Finally made it to Amalfi

We are staying in Villa Adrianna which is a really nice bed and breakfast with the most amazing shower ever! It is actually so good it is worth mentioning. It has a rain forest shower head but not one of those light sprinkles, it has the most amazing pressure ever. It also has 4 body spouts and then a separate removable shower wand. You can turn off all the lights and just turn on the blue shower light, which just makes it that much better. Alex, Allison, Krysta and I relished this luxury and all had the longest showers. We all agreed that it wasn't just because we haven't had a good shower in a long time but it was acutally way better than all of our home showers. 

 

We shopped in all the stores in Amalfi the rest of the day and we found out what the weird play we saw in the Sorrento restaurant last night was. 

So that's what that weird guy was trying to be

Panoramic view of Amalfi 

Well who knew peppers had dual function

Alex, Allison and Krysta

Weird Jacks they use as rocks to prevent erosion possibly, I'm not really sure but they were fun to climb.

You've probably noticed that in most of my posts there is always a cute puppy I've pet that day. Well Sean and Alex have been making fun of me that all I need is a guy with a dog and I'm sold. Today was the day that a guy finally played that trick on me, reel in the girl with their dog and then hit on her. There was the cutest puppy ever. He was 6 months old but already massive but had the goopy skin that he needed to grow into still and so soft. I ran up to pet him and within 3 mintues I was invited to go for drinks and then a party later that night. I was sad because then I had to make awkward small talk instead of just getting to pet the adorable puppy. 

-A

Naples Field Trip

Today, we had our second field trip of this course and we went to Naples to visit the pharmacy students at the University. It was really interesting seeing how the roles of pharmacists in Italy are drastically different than those in Canada and especially those in Alberta. There is no expanded scope of practice in Italy and the students here mostly go into research or other fields because it is really hard to get jobs in pharmacies because they only allow a certain number of pharmacies to open per a certain number of people living in the area. We also did a patient interaction with the students that showed how we counsel in Canada, which I think was really fun for both us and them because it is so different from what they are used to. 

After the field trip almost our whole class headed to Sorrento for our weekend trip. We got into Sorrento around 6 pm and needed to get dinner in us quick since we are used to massive fammily dinners every night. 

The pleasure bus we saw drive by filled with old people-we are not sure exactly what occurs on this tour

Amanda, Lexi, me and Krysta

We ended up at Luvullo restaurant just because we came upon it on our walk and it was the only thing on the whole street basically besides houses. They said they had live music and there was only a one euro cover charge so we were all for it. They had the full restaurant reserved so they had to make us a table on the upstairs patio (it was raining but there was a cover on the patio), which was enclosed by orange trees and gorgeous greenery and he said we could party with all the other people that were supposed to be arriving later. We ordered our food when a huge group arrived. We realized it was a huge tour group of around 65 year olds and that they were most likely Americans (which we confirmed later by asking them). They had a pre set dinner made for them and sitting near all of them we felt like we were on a seniors cruise ship. The werid part came next when the entertainment came out. It was some werid dancing, theatre like thing, where really werid things were occuring and was kind of awkward at times. At one point the man started shaking pepper into Alex's wine and Leah ended up dancing with one of the older man from the tour group. We thought we were stuck in the middle of some random swinger's tour group or something or maybe they were from the pleasure bus we saw earlier. 

Tiramisu

The waiter was awesome and as we were leaving he brought out the limoncello bottle that they homemade at the restaurant and gave us two free shots and took some shots with us as well. 

He left the bottle with us

-A