Sunday 9 October 2011
Thanks to Nicole's urging us all to travel along the Amalfi Coast, no matter how treacherous the drive might be, (interesting, considering she would NOT be the one doing the driving), we left camp Villaggio Azzurro and began the journey.
It was undeniably breathtaking, and Charles even said that the drive was fine compared to going through the streets of Salerno. Dian had to stop the car to get a closer look at what looked to be mini-houses on the side of the road, built into the rock. Sure enough, they were miniature buildings with people inside or in tiny boats. These sweet characters (which were possibly representative of real townspeople) showed us a side of the blown up commercial towns along the Amalfi coast that we hadn't expected to see from an area that receives so many visitors.
Though we didn't stop in most of the towns, we finally paused in one, which by the plethora of similar shops, we deduced was famous for its ceramics. We knew we couldn't just leave our rooster bowl by itself, so we bought another that was decorated inside with pomegranates, sunflowers, lemons and grapes.
After a full day of challenging driving, we hunkered down outside a small town's church and free- camped. A hot soup warmed our chilled bodies from the cold outside.
Thanks to Nicole's urging us all to travel along the Amalfi Coast, no matter how treacherous the drive might be, (interesting, considering she would NOT be the one doing the driving), we left camp Villaggio Azzurro and began the journey.
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| Ciao,Vesuvius |
It was undeniably breathtaking, and Charles even said that the drive was fine compared to going through the streets of Salerno. Dian had to stop the car to get a closer look at what looked to be mini-houses on the side of the road, built into the rock. Sure enough, they were miniature buildings with people inside or in tiny boats. These sweet characters (which were possibly representative of real townspeople) showed us a side of the blown up commercial towns along the Amalfi coast that we hadn't expected to see from an area that receives so many visitors.
Though we didn't stop in most of the towns, we finally paused in one, which by the plethora of similar shops, we deduced was famous for its ceramics. We knew we couldn't just leave our rooster bowl by itself, so we bought another that was decorated inside with pomegranates, sunflowers, lemons and grapes.
After a full day of challenging driving, we hunkered down outside a small town's church and free- camped. A hot soup warmed our chilled bodies from the cold outside.
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| Those Extraordinary Twins? |
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| Double rainbow all the way across the sky! |
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