Amalfi Coast - Positano

Our first day trip from Amalfi was to Positano, which is known as one of the more picturesque towns along the Amalfi Coast. It is also a more expensive town  to visit (hence why we stayed in Amalfi and took an €8 ferry ride there). The €8 was definitely money well spent, the scenery from the ferry was awesome, and the 30 minutes flew by as we happily took many photos along the way - we will post some pictures next.

Once in Positano we climbed up their main road, browsing at shoe shops and souvenir shops along the way. Apparently when Mick wore Damian's shoes for 3hrs in Rome he stretched them so much that Damian had to by another pair (obviously Mick is writing this blog)! In one of the shoe shops Damian spent quite a bit of time trying on different styles and sizes. Since the shop is on a cliff face the poor sales assistants (yes, he had more than one going) had to climb up and down so many stairs to get to their store room. To their extreme disappointment, none of their shoes fit properly, and Damian left without any shoes - at least they got their daily exercise in.

We had lunch at a secluded restaurant and both ordered their 'pasta of the day', which was similar to gnocchi but skinnier, green in colour and came with sausage and broccoli - it was so nice that Damian rated it his favourite pasta dish of the trip! We also had a number of drinks as it was very hot, the Venetian Aperol Spritz is becoming a popular choice on this trip.

Post lunch we went to the Positano beach for some R&R. Drifting in the water and looking at town clambering up the cliff face was truly memorable. The black sand and stones that made up the beach were also memorable but for all the wrong reasons. As any good European beach has, there were quite a few topless sun-bakers. We decided that there should be an age limit on topless sun-baking, because we saw some saggy 50+ yr old norks that should have remained covered. There were some perky 'white pointers' on the beach too, unfortunately they were Mick's... all that gelato has seen the dreaded emergence of man boobs - watch out Greece, they are coming your way!

Dinner was back at Amalfi at a 'home cooking' style restaurant. The meal was amazing and we couldn't believe how many extra lemon dishes this one had compared to the previous nights. However the waiter was a complete TWAT! He was really pleasant during first and second courses, but then we had to wait and wait and wait and still had not been offered dolci. So we politely said "Scusa, dolci menu" - whatever we said must have gotten lost in the pronunciation because he gave us attitude from then on. He dropped the menu on our table, and then went and cleaned glasses at the bar in front of our table. He continued to clean glasses, and we continued to wait for over 15 mins. He did not come and ask us what we wanted for dessert or if we wanted the bill. So we go up, paid and left. The complaint email is still being drafted...he messed with the wrong person (we all know how Mick loves a good complaint letter)! It was a disappointing end to a great day; the gelato down the road did improve our feelings and Mick's cup size.