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The day after I arrived, Cathy and I walked down the mountain from Ravello to Amalfi--a distance of about 4 miles, give or take a few kilometers. Four miles doesn't sound like much, but tell that to your knees.
If you click on a picture, you'll see a larger version...most wonderful details.
Looking back toward the top of the path...
Back of church...
Passing by homes...
Madonna (the other one)...
Does this say NO PARKING?...
Terrace...
Thanks be for walls...
Hitching a ride? No cars!!...
The sea to our left...
Mountain to our right...
Sun, flowers, sweet grass...
Prickly pear, but not Arizona!...
Hey, kitty!...
Construction zone...
Forget-me-nots...
Olive tree, I think...
Gorvy's house--white speck on cliff...
Looks like rain coming in...
Gorvy's again (he sold it when his knees gave out)...
About half way down...
Old foundation...
Lemon tree...
Looking toward valley of Dragon (river)...
Terraced orchards (with netting), gardens in valley...
Stone wall...
Church on hill...
Getting closer to town (Castigliano?)...
Clothes drying on a line...
St. Somebody's convent...
Amalfi!...
and lunch!!...
Hmm...let's see...
Always more color...
Vinegar and oil...
Swimming after lunch...
Back in Ravello, dinner time at restaurant next door to hotel, multicolored hydrangeas on terrace...
We made it!!...
Those are WONDERFUL photos! I sure wish I could have been there!
ReplyDeleteCathy is such a beauty!
Of course you made it.... just look at the size of the red wine glasses!!
ReplyDeleteSuper pictures, I am SOOOOO envious, I want to go there too!
peggy and ex-shammy:
ReplyDeleteyes to everything. i want to go again myself. ex-s...us hotshot wine drinkers don't fill those things up to the top and then chug the stuff back. what you see is two FULL wine glasses. the big glass means more AIR, which makes the little wine molecules dance like fools.
I hope you found alternative transport back and you didn't have to walk back UP all those steps.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a blast! Would love to go sometime...
ReplyDeletegreat pictures of Cathy!!
Sal
ex-sh...there's a bus that goes back to ravello. but lemme tell ya, going DOWN the steps is worse than going up.
ReplyDeletesally: you folks would absolutely LOVE this place. there are apartments you can rent that don't cost as much as hotel rooms. check out craigs list. or google. suggest positano, for the proximity of the water. i loved the square, though, and the bus. wot a riot. most of the guidebooks talk about the "hair-raising bus route." it's not so bad if you don't sit up front and stare out the right-hand window.
That looked INCREDIBLE!!! I feel all relaxed and in tune with nature just from scrolling through the photos. Ahhh.
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H: You would indeed love this place. I'm sorry I wasn't fast enough to capture a photo of at least one of the little green lizards that darted here and there along the path. (I did get one finally in Positano a couple of days later, but you can't really see its color.) And once I saw the tail of a little reddish snake as it disappeared between the rocks! I was enthralled.
ReplyDeletelovely photos and admirable exercise. if you'd been wearing pedometer imagine how many steps could be counted.
ReplyDeletelooks as if you had/having splendid time. glad we did it in our early sixties, so particularly impressed with your stamina.
yours, n
It's so great to think of you seeing and walking through all this - makes ME happy! The D.N.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos! Loved those crazy multicoloured hydrangeas. What a variety of vegetation - cacti and citrus trees on the same walk! Glad you are enjoying it so much...
ReplyDeleteSusan: Thanks, and next time you're visiting yr sister, you can travel there to enjoy it for yourself! i'm really sorry i didn't have time to visit naples (for the museum of antiquities) or pompeii or herculaneum or paestum or the paperworks in amalfi or...or...or
ReplyDeleteRonnie: The thing that just blew me away was how HAPPY and PEACEFUL it all felt. That "no parking" sign (which i am still working on translating) commemorates a temple of some kind on that same spot dating from 1100 and that somebody and his wife built the present house on!! (at least, i think that's what it says--lots of idiomatic constructions i haven't yet figured out). no freaking condo developments or box stores or huge parking lots. that's why there were so many of those little green lizards zipping around (and bees, and butterflies, and BIRDS). and yeah, cacti and lemons and olives all growing in the same place!!! who knew? you guys went back to Qbert, and i'm going back there, too.