Amalfi Coast
Bondi Tram
Peter Colquhoun and Sandra Colquhoun
Fri 4 Jun 2010 19:19
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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.
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