One day Lies and I bought a bus ticket and ambled on down through the towns of Positano and Amalfi. Positano is perched rather precariously on a cliff face, where it seems that all the buildings are clinging to each other for stability!We exited the bus at the top of the cliff and on the edge of the town and worked our way down. After a while, this zigzagging of our way down gained increasing urgency as one of us, namely Liesl (hehehe), becaming very close to bursting to visit the little girls room! As the urgency reached near breaking point, we decided that we had to stop in a cafe and buy a drink as an excuse to use their loo. Fortunately this was a wonderful reason to pause and really soak in the full gloriousness of the view.
Point of interest: when you order a lemonade in this part of Italy, you get real crushed lemon, water and ice, with some sugar on the side to add should you so desire. Really fantastic! The area must be perfect for citrus because lemons were everywhere!! The best part of this though was of course all the limoncello, which we became quite fond of sipping a shot of after our evening meal. So delicious! Especially when a sweet waiter had given it to us for free :) Anything else? No thank you. Maybe just a little limoncello? Okay, maybe just a little limoncello!
Again, my memory of Positano is that it was very pretty, but that it was also incredibly hot and unbelieveably crowded...a little too much of both for it to be enjoyed as it no doubt should. Liesl and I therefore chose to move on to Amalfi, with the expressed purpose of taking a swim there. Again we hired a little sun chair and did very little else other than read, lie in the sun, refresh ourselves in the water and drink the pama we had smuggled in! The best part was the way you could treat the lifeguards as waiters! When we were asked if we were okay, our answer was 'Actually no, we are a little thirsty', to which our chunk of bare chested italian lifeguard would trot off and buy us some lemon soda to mix with our pama. So funny! And then we had a devil of a time trying to convince him that we should pay for it! That I really loved about the Italian beach experience - the superb towel side service. So good! Unfortunately, that was literally all we did in Amalfi, so no pics from there I am afraid. I will post this one from Positano though because it shows one of the plants that was just everywhere along the Amalfi coast, and if anyone knows what this beautiful purple flowering gem is I would love to know the name of it!
At the end of the day Lies and I boarded a bus home and had a very interesting couple of hours beep beeping our way around a thousand corners along the road that hugs the coast back to Sorrento. Funnily, we got stuck for quite some time in a traffic jam because some people had stupidly chosen to park on the road, which has two directions of traffic using it but which is actually only wide enough for one. Therefore having these 2 lanes of traffic on a road built for one negotiating parked cars during a rush period became impossible. Lies and I were on holidays though and so not bothered at all. We read our books. We laughed at all the Italian hand gesturing. And we took photos of the pretty view as the sun slid down.
xxx
One day Lies and I bought a bus ticket and ambled on down through the towns of Positano and Amalfi. Positano is perched rather precariously on a cliff face, where it seems that all the buildings are clinging to each other for stability!We exited the bus at the top of the cliff and on the edge of the town and worked our way down. After a while, this zigzagging of our way down gained increasing urgency as one of us, namely Liesl (hehehe), becaming very close to bursting to visit the little girls room! As the urgency reached near breaking point, we decided that we had to stop in a cafe and buy a drink as an excuse to use their loo. Fortunately this was a wonderful reason to pause and really soak in the full gloriousness of the view.
Point of interest: when you order a lemonade in this part of Italy, you get real crushed lemon, water and ice, with some sugar on the side to add should you so desire. Really fantastic! The area must be perfect for citrus because lemons were everywhere!! The best part of this though was of course all the limoncello, which we became quite fond of sipping a shot of after our evening meal. So delicious! Especially when a sweet waiter had given it to us for free :) Anything else? No thank you. Maybe just a little limoncello? Okay, maybe just a little limoncello!
Again, my memory of Positano is that it was very pretty, but that it was also incredibly hot and unbelieveably crowded...a little too much of both for it to be enjoyed as it no doubt should. Liesl and I therefore chose to move on to Amalfi, with the expressed purpose of taking a swim there. Again we hired a little sun chair and did very little else other than read, lie in the sun, refresh ourselves in the water and drink the pama we had smuggled in! The best part was the way you could treat the lifeguards as waiters! When we were asked if we were okay, our answer was 'Actually no, we are a little thirsty', to which our chunk of bare chested italian lifeguard would trot off and buy us some lemon soda to mix with our pama. So funny! And then we had a devil of a time trying to convince him that we should pay for it! That I really loved about the Italian beach experience - the superb towel side service. So good! Unfortunately, that was literally all we did in Amalfi, so no pics from there I am afraid. I will post this one from Positano though because it shows one of the plants that was just everywhere along the Amalfi coast, and if anyone knows what this beautiful purple flowering gem is I would love to know the name of it!
At the end of the day Lies and I boarded a bus home and had a very interesting couple of hours beep beeping our way around a thousand corners along the road that hugs the coast back to Sorrento. Funnily, we got stuck for quite some time in a traffic jam because some people had stupidly chosen to park on the road, which has two directions of traffic using it but which is actually only wide enough for one. Therefore having these 2 lanes of traffic on a road built for one negotiating parked cars during a rush period became impossible. Lies and I were on holidays though and so not bothered at all. We read our books. We laughed at all the Italian hand gesturing. And we took photos of the pretty view as the sun slid down.
xxx
2 comments:
Love the photos, the water looks gorgeous - makes even a non-swimmer like myself want to dive in! Love love love the purple flowers - maybe a morning glory? But an uneducated guess.
oh i think im going to die of jealousy....the whole thing looks and sounds so perfectly italian!
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