Month: April 2015

More low cloud again this morning, so in order to escape we head for Ravello.  Beautiful little town perched high up in the mountains.  Not that easy to work this one out, but it is looking straight down from the terrace.

Here we are.

And as the clouds lift a bit, we stop for afternoon tea with an amazing view.

But a lot of today has been about parking and windy roads.  Spent quite a bit on parking, which is a good thing as it means we were able to.  One of our bemusements is how on earth the Amalfi Coast copes in summer – or perhaps it doesn’t.  Anyway, we stopped off in Amalfi on the way back (now knowing where to park) and then the windy road back from Amalfi to our house.  Pretty scary, but getting used to being overtaken in the most unlikely of places ….

Actually quite a lot of fog (or low cloud – makes no difference!).  So the view from the balcony isn’t great.

So off to Positano.  Distances here are on a different scale to anywhere else.  Positano is 20km, and the satnav says allow an hour – and it was spot on.  I don’t know if the satnav recalibrates in the summer when it’s busy …

Anyway, Positano was great.  Admittedly you have to park near the top and its a 20 minute walk down (and 40 minutes back), but it’s worth the effort.  A nice little beach on which to have pizza for lunch – apparently you can’t see the beach in summer because it’s covered in bodies.

Bit of a breather and a quick snap on the way back …

Hee hee – perhaps getting better.

But then we went to a fantastic restaurant a few minutes walk from our house.  They are self-sufficient, so everything is homegrown and homemade.  Here’s Rose cooking the sausages.

And us enjoying great food and wine, and discussing Europe, Greece and football with the other guests (all German).