The table

The table is the stay, finished. Not a restaurant reservation. A chef in the kitchen. Ten at dinner. Heat, the sea, evening that runs long.

Villa Romeo is a Sorrento house for this. Four bedrooms, each with a terrace to the Bay of Naples. A pool, a garden, a piano in the room that holds the fire. The house chef is the table — not a hotel kitchen.

Lemons and Vesuvius sit a few kilometres away at Villa Sorrento. Six bedrooms, fifteen at the table. Dinner under the trees. The town is two kilometres. A car for the port if you want the hydrofoil.

On the Amalfi side the sequence is terrace, then the table, then the walk back through the house. Villa Bellavista: cliff, citrus, a pool that holds the sea. Pack the caffè latte silk. Heat does not kill it. Neither does a car seat.

A chef can be added to the same bag. A residency if the party is long. One dinner if the table needs a single night finished. Produce from the coast. The house already has the kitchen.

Sorrento and Amalfi are not the same road. They are the same holiday: silk in the suitcase, a table at the other end. See the houses under Sorrento and Amalfi.