While on a very occasional hotpot gathering with my girl friend's pals, one of the ladies said she would go to Capri and Sorrento for holiday in June.
Capri is such an enigmatic place. There are so many stories associated with it. Maugham's The Lotus Eater, Bryson's Neither Here Nor There . . . The place is at least an imaginary paradise to reader like me. It worths wondering whether the place is that beautiful, that someone would sacrifice his belongings for a reclusive life there. And even the sarcastic Bryson cannot stop praising it. The only problem is, it is too far away.
Regarding Sorrento, most of us would have mixed feeling with it. If we are asked what "Sorrento" is, the overwhelming answer would be the same naming estate in TST, rather than the lovely Italian town. Could it be treated as a certain kind of cultural difference, or a form of "East meets West"? The answer could not be easily told.
When so many places are "untravelable", like Japan, Philippines, Thailand . . . , it is fortunate to be affordable to go to Italy, in the sense of time and finance.
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