Defying gravity
From Sorrento a spectacular road winds over the Peninsula and around the cliff faces of the Amalfi Coast to the village of Positano.
At least, we hear it’s a spectacular road. The Impossible Princess suffers shockingly from car-sickness…so the thought of being stuck in a bus on a narrow, winding road with a vomitting child was too much to contemplate.
Luckily however, the ferries to Positano were still running (they stop during the winter months). 45 minutes in a large jetfoil ferry was, for us, a much preferable way of reaching this incredible town.
The photos don’t quite convey the seemingly impossible nature of this place. The town is practically vertical, with buildings just clinging to the steep sides. The marble steps up to the Church are like a ladder – it was hard to imagine brides in long dresses and high heels negogiating them.
A deckchair and umbrella can be hired for your day at the volcanic beach. The very idea of private pay-per-swim beaches is quite alien to us Aussies, but we coughed up and had our first ever dip in the Mediterranean Sea.
We enjoyed lunch on the terrace of a restaurant overlooking this beach (just behind those trees on the left). A long, leisurely lunch with a view seemed to be the right thing to do in such a spectacular location.
And at the end of the day, a ferry awaited to get us back to Sorrento.
Later today…felines
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