Amalfi Coast

Bondi Tram
Peter Colquhoun and Sandra Colquhoun
Fri 4 Jun 2010 19:19
We stopped for a night at the marina in Agropoli, which had a very picturesque old part of the town on
the hill.
 
 
From Agropoli, we took the bus to Paestum, originally a Greek colony founded in 6 B.C.  Mostly it is now
just foundations, but there are remains of the walls and a couple of really well preserved temples, one of
which is pictured below.  As good as the Parthenon?
 
 
The other well preserved temple.
 
 
Approaching Amalfi from the sea
 
 
 
The church in the main square of Amalfi. Very busy place, with tour buses coming and going, and ferries
from Salerno, Naples, Positano, Ischia and Capri.
 
 
The surrounding hills are full of lemon groves  - here are bottles and bottles of Limoncello, as well as lemon
soap and anything else you can make with lemons.
 
 
We took the bus 9 km up a winding road with many hairpin bends to the small town of Ravello, then walked
back down to Amalfi.  There is a pedestrian way, about 5 km, which included some 1,500 steps.  We were
still feeling our stressed leg muscles 3 days later, but the views were spectacular.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We moved a few miles up the coast to the also very popular Positano.
 We found this town delightful and much quieter than Amalfi.
 
 
 
 
There were numerous artists painting on the beach with their works for sale to the tourists
 
 
Arriving at the top station of the Funicular on Capri.
 
 
 
It was Sandra's birthday, so this bench seemed an appropriate throne.
 
 
Tourist boats clustered around the entrance to the famous Blue Grotto and waiting their turn to be rowed in
and serenaded by the boatmen. We declined and moved North into The Bay of Naples.