We arrived in Naples early this morning and met our tour group for our trip down the coast. There were only 14 of us in a comfortable bus with a happy guide named Allessandro. We stopped first in the lovely little town of Amalfi with its splendid church dedicated to St. Andrew, the first of the Apostles. Amalfi lies on a beautiful bay with brilliant turquoise water. We wandered around the cobblestone streets and bought the requisite postcards before coming to a store with lovely majolica ceramic pottery. A pasta bowl was calling our name so it’s on its way to Newport News.
We moved on to Positano, probably the prettiest of the towns along the coast. The ride alone is spectacular with hairpin turns, each of them revealing new gorgeous vistas. It’s truly amazing to see these towns which have been built from the shoreline up basically sheer cliffs that have been terraced.
You don’t see overweight people here presumably because they eat sensibly and they do a great deal of walking up and down hills. Speaking of eating, we had a wonderful lunch in the Hotel Le Sireneuse. The food was excellent and the wine was even better. After lunch we could have used a siesta. In Italy it’s the custom for shops to close from 1 PM to 5 PM. It’s a different way of life!
After finishing our visit to Positano we continued on to Sorrento, which lies across the bay from Naples. Sorrento is a center for manufacture of inlaid wood furniture and boxes of all sizes. It’s surrounded by groves of lemon, orange and olive trees. In the little shopping streets we found some delicious limoncello and that too will make it to America.
Well, tomorrow we”ll be in Civitavecchia and we have an early morning. Good night everyone.
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