Today we got up early and left Lipari to go to Sorrento for the next week. We rolled our luggage down to the dock and picked up some chocolate croissants along the way. The boat was bigger than the last one and the seats were nicer. Jeanine spent almost 4 hours of the trip updating the journal because she had done nothing since Cinque Terre! Good thing there was an outlet right next to our seat so that she could plug in the computer. We arrived at the Naples dock at 1:15. Joseph had told us that we could buy tickets to Sorrento and the boat left at 1:40pm, so we walked around to find that no one spoke English. Finally one person pointed us to a ticket booth a block away. We got in line only to find that this dock has a boat that left at 4pm, and there is no 1:40 boat, there is one at 1:05 or 3 from a different dock! He told me to take a taxi there. So, we walked back over to the taxi stand and waited and waited and waited…and no taxi’s came by! Finally one stopped to tell us that he wouldn’t pick us up because of the mandate (he didn’t speak English). A man walked by selling fans, and Jeanine told him we would pay him to find us a taxi, but we didn’t want a fan. So, he told us to wait and that he would find one, and he ran off! So we waited some more until almost 2 and we gave up and walked back to the ticket office and bought tickets for the 4pm boat to Sorrento. As Jeanine was calling the hotel in Sorrento to tell them the change in time, the man reappeared and said that he couldn’t find one (it had been over a half hour, we thought he had given up!). We told him thank you and gave him a few euros. So, we waited and read in the covered waiting area and got on the huge ferry that went to Sorrento. There was hardly anyone on this huge boat! We finally made it into Sorrento around 5:20pm and we ended up taking a bus up to the main square and walking the few blocks down to our apartment. Joseph met us there and showed us around and gave us wonderful maps and the timetables for the trains and buses around the Amalfi coast (much nicer than in Lipari). We went out to dinner to a restaurant he recommended, La Feniche, and it was wonderful! We asked if they could make gnocchi with cheese instead of tomato sauce, and it was great. Jeanine split it with mom along with the curry chicken that she got. We ate profiteroles for desert and then came back and watched the France vs. Portugal football game and watched France win- they will play Italy in the final game of the world cup on Sunday. We actually made a reservation at the restaurant to watch the final game this weekend! Should be fun. Then we went to bed.