Hi from the Amalfi Coast. What a place - apparently really trendy and expensive in high season, right now it's just beautiful, cheap(ish) and relaxing. We hired scooters yesterday, which I never would have thought I'd do. I have never ridden a scooter or a motorbike so it was an experience!! Was great fun! Excellent! Except it can be a bit risky for young players. I found myself in a spot of bother when a bus came around a corner taking up the whole road... I was going down the hill & was forced to pull over right to the edge of the road, with enough space for the bus to get around - well a bus with a normal bus driver, one that could execute tight turns... Anyway, the bus was way too close to me and because I was facing down the hill, and my scooter was a 125cc, it was quite heavy. I could not for the life of me, pull it back up the hill. Luckily a few older Italian gentlemen, taking their afternoon stroll nearby, came to my assistance. We rolled my scooter out of bus-harm's way, and I could breathe again. There were a couple of other near misses by the others too but it was all ok... Chaos rules here but it works.
View of Positano (I think)
The beach below (quite a way below) our place in Priano.
A parrot I met along the way who said 'ciao' and some other things in Italian. Non capisco!!!!
My 'ciao' move with my trusty (but heavy) scooter by my side. No, Dan isn't doing the forks - it's some West-side thingo... I think...
Ahhhh another beautiful Italian sunset at the end of an exhilirating day!!!
Only here now that the car has been fixed. After 4 nights in Pompei we were all ready to leave but I'm kinda happy for the delay because it meant that I could see Vesuvius (after my unfortunate state the day the others went up it). Caught the 'local' bus at 11:30am (after waiting for one since 9am!!! GRRR was a religious day, anniversary of the local church or something, so some of the locals surmised that the buses just weren't stopping in town).... Anyway, the 'local' bus stopped at a compulsory session with some old bloke who'd worked at Vesuvius for 50 years or something. He was entertaining and could speak Italian, English, French and German. But all I wanted to do was get to the volcano. Got there eventually, paid my student fee of 4.50euro and went for a walk. Talked to a lovely Canadian couple in between checking out steam, the huge crater, and the view. Was a great thing to see my first active volcano up-close. LTD then picked me up and we made our way to Amalfi.
Only here now that the car has been fixed. After 4 nights in Pompei we were all ready to leave but I'm kinda happy for the delay because it meant that I could see Vesuvius (after my unfortunate state the day the others went up it). Caught the 'local' bus at 11:30am (after waiting for one since 9am!!! GRRR was a religious day, anniversary of the local church or something, so some of the locals surmised that the buses just weren't stopping in town).... Anyway, the 'local' bus stopped at a compulsory session with some old bloke who'd worked at Vesuvius for 50 years or something. He was entertaining and could speak Italian, English, French and German. But all I wanted to do was get to the volcano. Got there eventually, paid my student fee of 4.50euro and went for a walk. Talked to a lovely Canadian couple in between checking out steam, the huge crater, and the view. Was a great thing to see my first active volcano up-close. LTD then picked me up and we made our way to Amalfi.
Vesuvius - that is the whole volcano that's left. The new crater is the taller one on the left and that's the one where the walk is up to. The carpark where the walk starts from is about smack-bang in the middle of the original & huge core.
The new crater behind me
Steam
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