Following our morning trip to Positano I, along with my mom and dad, hopped a high speed ferry south for 30 minutes to the Mediterranean town of Amalfi. Along the way to Amalfi we had a chance to sit back and enjoy this beautiful summer day. The sun was shining brightly, the cool breeze from the Mediterranean kept us comfortable, and we were all in good spirits. Before long we arrived on shore and began exploring the town. Amalfi seemed more like a functioning town to me than did Positano, which we had visited only hours before. People here seemed to be leading lives that were not totally tied up in capitalizing on the tourist ecomony. There was a bonafide center of this town, with a few fountains, churches, and monuments. Old Fiats sputtered around the
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