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Published: November 5th 2011
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Unfortunately internet connection is still very tenuous here and we have had none for the last two nights and all day yesterday (Friday), so while we have some at the moment (Saturday morning) I’ll publish the blog below and get it out of the way and have to catch up with Friday and Saturday, tonight, hopefully. We are getting picked up by our driver at 8.30am this morning to go into Sorrento and head across in the ferry to Capri as this is the only service running during the off season.
Here is Thursday in Positano anyway.
Thursday in Positano was just a magic day. It’s now 8pm and we have just eaten our first home cooked meal since we left home, that is a home cooked meal cooked by one of us. But more on that later.
I’m crashing today out now and will add tomorrow’s happenings before posting it tomorrow night, hopefully. However we seem to have internet connection hassles every evening here, not sure what it is – might just be everyone in the area on the net and it’s overloaded – but we’ll see how it goes.
We started late and lazy as already stated
in our last blog and caught up on messages once we established an internet connection.
We had a lazy breakfast in our PJs on the deck overlooking the sea and the coastal towns. Toast and tea tasted just fine with the added ambience!!!
After showering and getting dressed we left a grocery order with our landlady Rosa. They have a great system here. Just like the restaurant doing pick ups and taking you home, the ‘grocery’ shop in Praiano, the next village along the coast, does home deliveries. Rosa said she’d do the ordering and we thought that was best given the difficulties sometimes with the language.
We then set out walking to Positano. The little bus that runs between Praiano and Positano started on their ‘off season’ timetable this week and it is rather infrequent so instead of waiting nearly an hour for the next bus we set off. Rosa said it would take about half an hour!! Well, of course, by the time photo stops are taken into account and the times we spent hugging the roadside wall to avoid the cars and motorbikes it was about an hour before we got there. However it was a really
lovely walk. The weather was just beautiful, sunny and warm but not too hot. We both had summer clothes on for the first time since leaving Las Vegas, shorts and sandals/jandals were the order of the day. We took our lives in our hands by walking. The road is a narrow two lane affair but is very narrow with a sheer rock wall going up on one side and a sheer fall to either the sea or houses on the other side. There is a rock wall protecting the sea side traffic from falling off the road and being good Kiwis we walked facing the coming traffic which is, of course, on the wrong side of the road. We made t without too many near misses. Bit scary when walking around a blind bend with motorcyclists coming towards you leaning into the bend which in this case is into where we were walking along the edge of the road. Fun, fun, fun.
Made it into Positano and what an amazing little village. Built into the side of the steep cliffs from sea level upwards with very narrow roads eventually petering out to become narrow alleys and lanes with shops along both sides. You wind your way down through the labyrinth to the sea where there is a ‘beach’. As I said in my last offering, the beach is small by our standards and is a dark sand which becomes pebbles nearer the water. There were a smattering of people sunbathing etc. but it was neat just to walk in the sand etc.
It was now about 1.30pm so we slotted into one of the restaurants on the beach front and had a lovely lunch, omelette t start with and I had a Calzone to finish with and Joy had some lemon icecream. Lots of diet coke to wash it down as we were feeling hot and thirsty by this time with all the walking. It’s about 5 kms from where we are staying to Positano so a good walk.
After lunch we wandered around the town for a couple of hours or so looking at the shops and a lovely church right in the middle of town. The shops are a real mixture. Many are very expensive boutique type shop with all the big expensive names plus many selling locally made clothing which is very expensive. Apparently during the summer this is one of the playgrounds for the rich and famous hence the expensive places. However at the moment they just have the Kittos, and a few American cruise boat tourists here for the day to keep them busy, so they must have done a starve in the Bulgari shop and the other big named shops. 149euro (close to $300NZ) for a shirt that you might pay $100NZ for at top dollar. We bought a few little bits and pieces in the souvenir line but as always we are hamstrung by case weights with still a lot of flying to be done and only 23kgs per case allowed.
There was a local bus leaving at 4.15pm so we caught that to the stop just a few metres from our apartment and arrived there feeling like we’d had a great day in this very unique place.
Quiet time with Joy downloading her photos for the day and, YES folks, she filled the first 8GB USB stick with her photos from today, so you can imagine how many that means she has taken so far and there is still over 3 weeks to go!!!!!
Part of the groceries we had delivered was all the makings for homemade spaghetti and that’s what Joy cooked for dinner, spaghetti with onion, ham and Emmental cheese flavoured with basil and tomato sauce accompanied by fresh ciabatta bread and followed by some lovely locally made Italian cake that we bought in Positano. It was all very yummy and eaten on the patio with candle light ambience, very refined for us!!!!.
Tomorrow we are being picked up at 9am by Giovanni, our taxi man, and going over to Herculaneum and Mount Vesuvius for the day. Herculaneum was a place similar to Pompei that was buried by the eruption 2000 years ago, It isn’t as big as Pompei but as we visited Pompei 3 years ago Joy wanted to do Herculaneum this time and we also intend walking up the crater of Mount Vesuvius. More on all that tomorrow when I’ll add the day’s activities and post this blog.
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