Positano

So then, Positano.  I told you all about the shit arse journey it takes to get here & I really mean that, but it is worth it.  It’s a lovely little town perched on the side of a mountain along the Amalfi Coast.  Its difficult to explain why its so good, its not a paradise beach like you get in the Maldives, its not an isolated island where you can wander the sea front naked & you could look at all the Photo’s & think ‘yeah its nice but what’s all the fuss about?’  Its not even as if its vastly different from other places, it has a touch of the Cinque Tere, a bit of Portofino & even splash of a Greek white-washed village to it.  But I suppose its all this that makes it so good.  All those places are lovely & if you take the best bits & make a seaside town out of them you’ve got Positano.  We’ve been here before & we loved it & still after another 2 weeks we still love it.  The only downside is the relentless heat & the swarms of American’s.  The heat really shouldn’t be a surprise, it is the Mediterranean in the heart of summer after all, but fuuuuuck it’s hot.  Before we came away my pre flight gripe was the potential heat & how bad I am at copping with it.  I was not wrong, I just can’t cope with it, but neither can anyone else & that must be the reason that business shut in July & August or the ones that don’t, close between 1 & 5 every afternoon.  It is too hot to even just sit & drink beer.  You have to get out of the sun.

We didn’t do a lot in the 2 weeks we were there.  In the 1^st week we hoped on a boat & sailed over to Capri (the Island, not the 70’s car).  That was a day of my life & €150 I’ll never get back!  We’re all led to believe that Capri is some ultra exclusive holiday mecca.  All it is though is a very expensive island with some very expensive shops on it.  It hasn’t even got a beach, not really.  The only reason people would chose to go on holiday there would be so they could say ‘I am considerably richer than you!’

Then the 2^nd week we spent the day back down the Hellish train line in Pompeii & Sorrento.  The Journey was still fraught with filth but Pompeii did live up to the hype.  I’m not going to bore you too much with the Pompeii shit, it was a Roman port town that got buried under 6m of ash & lava when MT Vesuvius erupted.  It was a huge expanse of ruins & excavations & was in the main pretty interesting but it was disappointing that they’d removed all the ash formed bodies that it is famed to have all round the place. 

From here we moved onto Sorrento.  Not much to say about here.  It was nice, it was big & we were glad we didn’t stay here.

Also, during our stay in Positano we had to decide our next course of action.  Do we return to the real world, do we stay here or do we bugger of somewhere else. It was a big dilemma? 

Supposed to add to the photo update but I forgot.
I went there, not what it says on the tin!