we woke up to rain in paradise this morning which quickly cleared. we'd hoped to head out on a boat and see the emerald grotto and some of the amalfi coast from the sea but alas, even though the rain had lifted the high seas had not. What did we do instead? Well Glen still went for his morning run (chooke I'm still in heavy training - we have 203 stairs down from our place to the street, then 203 back up again at the end of the day!). When he got back we decided to go out for breakfast, something we hadn't yet done in positano (most cafes only serve pastries and coffee for breakfast but we'd found one yesterday that served eggs etc - what is called here an amercian or british breakfast!) so about 10am we headed down the many, many stairs for the walk down the hill to the main, beach front cafe/ restaurant strip for breaky. We weren't in a hurry and enjoyed a long leisurely and very filling meal of eggs, ham, toast (they serve bread with everything), juice, coffee and crepes for sweets. By then it was around 11.30am and we thought we'd take a walk over to the little beach, next to the main one. We strolled over the paved headland walk, enjoying the sunshine and views. Glen wanted to check out the castle tower thing at the far end of the beach so we by-passed the sunloungers and continued on. We could only get so far before our path was blocked by a gate - obviously prviate property. We turned back and with no firm plans and a day free, grabbed a sunlonge, umbrella and towels (all rented for the bargain price of 14 euros - it is double that on the main beach!) And set up for some sunbathing. Hours of sun worship and swimming followed. A late lunch around 3pm followed our late breakfast - we didn't have far to go as the resturant was right on the beach, literally 10 metres from our sun lounges. Fresh tuna salads with wine and coffee. Back to the sunlounges and more swimming - glen grabbed one of the floating lilo things and headed out. all in all it was relaxing to say the least! Oh and did i mention we also got beachside massages from the lovely little asian lady who was offering full body massages right on your sunlounges for just 20 euro. After all the stair climbing we felt we'd earned it.
now scroll to the bottom and view the photos from the bottom up
landed
bringing the boat home
Glen on a different inflatable boat thingy - trying to row himself around (the paddle broke part way through!)
Glen on one of the inflatable boat things they had for general use (really he's a big kid at heart!)
they are my legs to the left of the umbrella. On the far right of this picture are two people sitting together on one sunlougne. Glen swears the guy was a giggolo as he approached the woman seemingly from out of the blue.
This was the view from where we had lunch...
me sunbaking
we walked to the end of this little beach (the smaller one in Positano) and this was the view looking back at it.
this is our apartment as seen from the beach below (many, many steps below!)
the amazing Italian sun loungers (why don't we have these here???)
the sunny beach - I think it's official name is Fornillo and spiaggia is Italian for beach.
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