Finding your way around Sorrento is easy...

... with a little help from your friends. The centre of town is Piazza Tasso, named after Torquato Tasso, a 16th century Italian poet who was born in Sorrento.

Today, as far as tourists are concerned, Piazza Tasso means bars, espresso and scooters, but it is a good place to use as a focus for directions.

For us though, Piazza Tasso is a bit too busy and probably a bit too false, we prefer Piazza Lauro. It's actually much more modern, but it's also very relaxed, very Italian and when you sit at a cafe with either a coffee, water or a beer, you get to see real Italian people relaxing - which usually means with a cigarette, a mobile phone, or a scooter - or even all three at the same time.

From at either side of Piazza Tasso is the Corso Italia, the main shopping street that also is home to a number of hotels, restaurants, cafe's and English style pubs.

Don't let that put you off straight away, because the Sorrentinas do English pubs in their own very unique way - yes, they'll serve you a pint of beer and a plate of chips, but that's offered alongside pizza, pasta, Italian coffees and wine - you could never think that you were back in dear old blighty.

Then there are the two marina's, Marina Grande - the old fishing marina that still works today ad has a real charm about it, and Marina Piccola which is busy with tourists and locals ferrying between Capri, Ischia, Amalfi and Naples