Beautiful beyond words

This morning, we were on a hike of the local villages. For about 3 hours, we were out in the countryside to the south of Sorrento. We were up and down, in and out of very small villages, in the countryside where groves of olive trees, vineyards, vegetable gardens and lemon trees were the norm. We almost always had a view of the Mediterranean, either the bay of Napoli or the bay of Salerno. We started in the small village of Termini and hiked to the village of Marina Della Lobra for lunch.

Around each corner or up each hill, every sight was more beautiful than the last, very postcard worthy! No doubt the pictures (which we took hundreds of) won't do it justice. 

The famous isle of Capri 

We found some lemons.

Shortly after we started, this little character joined us. He literally led us the entire rest of the way, 3 hours or so. He barked at all the other dogs along the way, as if to tell them where we were going, even picked up a couple of canine friends along the way. We hope he got back home, he ended up in a village very far from his own, but just like Hansel and Gretel, he marked his path very well as we went along. We were very tired, it was almost 13000 steps for humans, imagine how many steps for this little terrier!

Several times, we met small cars or trucks, on little roads we would consider to only be a path.

The lemon trees are covered by nets to protect them from the "harsh" winter climate.

Tim, is your life insurance paid up?

This is netting that once the olives are ripe, the net will be rolled out, and when the olives fall,they fall into the net to be harvested. Olive oil production is a big industry here.

Bougenvalia are all over the place.

This was our guide at the end of our hike, we felt the same! It was a very hot day!!!