To heck with it then!
Can you believe it’s already October?!
Yuss!!
Which means the 11 weeks of remaining paychecks I’ll get before having to not work again is looming.
What struck me is the "having to not work again" part. Frankly... that sounds amazing.
I’m starting to flesh in the details now on my trip to the Philippines, Bali, Australia, and Tasmania
Whoa! Holy smokes!
Perhaps one day soon I’ll write up a few chapters as a mini-PTR to show my exciting plans! If you’re interested in something like that, give a YAY or NAY!!!
Yay!!!
I can’t stress enough how easy taking the trains is in Italy.
I think that applies to a lot of Europe. I can only speak for a few countries, but... it's
so easy!
(The view I'd hoped to have over coffee)
Why did you not?
A sad note: None of the photos from Sorrento are mine. Somehow, I’ve lost the SD card(s) with these photos and so basically all of the photos from this day are either taken from the internet or from my (or Anara’s) cell phone.
Well, poop.
That's a real shame.
It was great coffee (Italian espresso always is)...
Coffee? Meh. However...
Also, nice photo of Anara.
I spent a fair amount of time trying to get that perfect glisten off of the lemons.
Oh sure. I do that all the time. Who doesn't want a nice glisten off of the ol' lemon?
Here’s a photo that gives you a good idea of what we enjoyed on our slow little stroll.
Pretty.
But once on, (thank God we had seats, many did not!) we were in Positano in about another hour.
Man, that would've been something. Twisty turns and having to stand... for an hour.
A word of warning: The road is very curvy, the buses do not go slowly, and there will be times you are positive your bus is not going to fit on the road with an oncoming car.
I've heard this about Italy.
The obvious place to head was the beach which involves a long, fairly steep trek down, down, down… If you have painful knees think twice.
And... were your knees painful?
Once on the beach we found it to be over-choked with beachside bars and restaurants, each with its own stretch of shaded chairs to rent for the day. Included, of course, was service in which you could order $20 drinks and bougie food.
It's sand. If it ain't free, it ain't for me.
And a nice photo of both of you.
When we arrived at what we thought was the bus stop, we waited.
For a long time.
Remember, they only run about once an hour. There was a cute pottery shop nearby so we popped in there and browsed.
"While we were in the shop, the bus rolled by and we had to wait another hour..."
back out the “bus stop” we went. Only to have a bus pass us and stop 2 blocks up.
This really irritated me because the driver and we made solid eye contact and we waved at him, while starting to run. But apparently, they wait for no one.
And yet... Not all that surprised. They probably have tons of tourists trying to flag them down, and if they wait for all of them... they ain't gonna git to where they gotta git to!
Exasperated, we hailed a taxi and $50 later we found ourselves in Praiano.
Ouch.
Beautiful!
Is that Anara in the reflection? If it is, what a cool shot!
we dined al fresco under the warm, Italian sun with a gentle breeze to our faces. Our view was nothing short of perfection with the colorful hillside homes decorating the slopes near the sea.
You sure paint a pretty picture. Sounds amazing!
fresh-from-the garden Caprese salad.
<drool>
Too cool for school
holy cow. I'm gonna have to go to Italy just for that salad.
We eventually made our way back up to the main highway and successfully caught the SITA bus headed for Amalfi.
Found an actual bus stop, huh?
I also popped into one last ceramics shop and bought a cute little olive oil container painted with lemons as a souvenir from the area. Success!
Score!
We were already cutting it close. I found out how close when we got to the ferry ticket booth as was sold the last 2 tickets for the last ferry out. PHEW!!!
So pretty.
we had just enough time to take a couple of photos (which I’ve lost)
So unfortunate.
And that, my friends, is how we spent 1 day on the Amalfi Coast. I think for me personally, it went under-appreciated mostly because we simply didn’t have enough time to really enjoy the things I’d planned and wanted to do.
I would think one day just wouldn't be enough. But at least you got a taste of it, both figuratively and literally.