Elizabeth

I will be traveling to Sorrento in October. I am interested in going to Calitri (where my mother's family is from) but I don't know which is the best way to get there. Is there a train from Sorrento to Calitri? Or since I don't want to drive is there a way to hire someone who can drive me?

Barbara

Elizabeth, On my map there appears to be a train station just outside Calitri. Call a travel agent. The have all the European train schedules and get new updated ones quarterly. I doesn't look too far to drive with a good road map either. Good luck.

JD70

Elizabeth, did you ever go to Calitri? My mother was born there too and I would like to go there by train from Sorrento in June. Looking for suggestions. I will not be able to drive.

stevewith

This might help

http://southernitaly.wordpress.com/getting-there/

kybourbon

That link says there is train service and there isn't. You will have to take a bus from Naples to Avellino and change to a bus to Calitri. I think you would need to stay a night instead of a day trip as it would take over an hour by train from Sorrento to Naples, about an hour or so from Naples to Avellino and about 2 1/2 hours from Avellino to Calitri. I wouldn't attempt this on a Sunday as many buses don't run on Sundays or have very limited schedules.

janisj

Folks - the thread is <B><red>FIFTEEN</B></red> years old -- What on earth is going on here this weekend?

All these newbies registering and finding ancient threads to top????

janisj

JD70 - if you are going to Italy you will do better to start your own threads w/ your specific question and not tacking on to old/molds threads . . . .

kybourbon

>>>janisj on May 26, 13 at 10:59pm
Folks - the thread is FIFTEEN years old -- What on earth is going on here this weekend?<<

The OP is that long ago, but JD70's is from today. I don't see what your problem is janis. If you don't want to see any old threads, hang out on TA. Many people that were on here that long ago are still on here and still answering questions. You don't know that Elizabeth isn't and I'm sure this turned up in a search JD did for Calitri. I'm sure there are darn few threads on Calitri to browse.

JD - Your post is fine here especially since the OP (original post) is asking for the exact the info you were wanting. If you have other Italy questions, you might want to start some threads of your own with a specific title.

janisj

I suggested JD start his/her own thread. Tacking on to one from the last century won't get the response s/he probably needs . . .

stevewith

kybourbon,

There is a train service to Calitri. You go to Avellino and switch to a commuter train, similiar to the way one gets to Sorrento.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stazion...ri-Pescopagano

However, the link I provided urges bus travel from Naples, which looks more efficient to me that taking the train from Naples to Avellino and the bus from there.

janisj,

The links I provided give a lot of useful information about how to get to Calitri. I suspect you are picking on poor JD as a vendetta against other unnamed people. Real question is what on earth is going on with you most of the time? What difference does it make if new people sign up and research the archives and ask questions in old threads? Nobody needs a Fodor's travel thread nanny. Free discussion is fine. Try to let go, would you?

Mimar

Here she goes again.

stevewith

Mimar,

I get the impression reading kybourbon's comments to janisj that this kind of interruption isn't an "again" but sort of a constant from janisj.

JD (and kybourbon),

My mistake. The train station in Calitri is closed!

vincenzo32951

That's OK. As long as it was open 15 years ago.

JD70

No need to cause such a stir, but thanks for the replies.