Campania, Italy All photos by Hetty
June 2012
There is only one road along the coast, which is high on a cliff, with hair-pin bends, and is not always wide enough for 2 coaches to pass – an exciting journey!
Ravello
Ravello is high up on a cliff, with fantastic views
There are a lot of ceramic workshops in the area
Ravello
Ravello church
Ravello has 2 large gardens that were made by English men.
Villa Cimbrone
Amalfi
Amalfi has a very unusual cathedral
Amalfi has a dramatic valley with derelict paper mills
Ravello is on the top of the cliff
Looking down on Amalfi from Torre del Ziro
Atrani
The Path of the Gods
This was the reason we went to Italy – and it was lovely. We took a bus to Amalfi, a bus up hairpin bends to Bomerano, then walked the ‘Path of the Gods’ to Positano
Fantastic views of cliffs above and below.
Montepertuso = the hole in the mountain
Positano
It looks like the houses are built on top of one another
On another day at Positano: at 10am the pebbles were too hot to walk on barefoot. Fortunately we found a rock half in the sea, to sit on, to take our shoes off, and we stood in the sea in the shade of this large rock
Positano
St Agata to Torca
We walked from St Agata (390m/1280 ft) to Torca, then down a step path,
then down 700 steps to a cove, on a very hot day The only trouble was – it was 700 steps up again, and our destination was at 330m/ 1082 ft
Termini to Recommone Beach
From Termini 320m/1049 ft we climbed up steps to San Costanzo church, 420m/1377 ft, which overlooks Nerono and Marina del Cantone.
We walked back down to Termini and then down to Nerono then to Marina del Cantone and around the headland to Recommone
Marina del Cantone with San Costanzo church on the peak
Recommone Bay
A lovely holiday