Amalfi Coastline

Amalfi Coastline-November 1

This morning when we were showered, dressed and nearly all packed, we went down to our customary breakfast in the hotel but when we got there the dining room was empty! We double checked our watches to be sure we weren’t early but it was after 8. Another guest, there with his two daughters on school break from England, said “We appear to have lost breakfast”! Indeed we had! After a bit of searching, we found it in another dining room. Ah, it was November 1st and the winter season had begun. A lovely continental breakfast awaited us but the ‘eggs any way you like them’ station was just a summer memory…..After a yummy breakfast, we gathered our things and checked out.



Outside the hotel, there was no doubt the weather had changed; it was cloudy and quite a bit cooler. A good travel day and we were glad we’d been to Capri the day before. We drove from Sorrento over to the southern side of the peninsula and began our jouney east along the Amalfi coast. It was an exciting drive. There are lots of switchbacks which lead you from one spectacular vista to the next. We thought the scenery was made even more dramatic with the clouds, although the photographs really do it justice.






Along the road, every so often would be a little roadside stand like this one. We liked this guy's display-especially all the peppers.

















The first town we came to was Positano, then Amalfi followed by the turn off to Ravello. We had planned to go to a special spot there called Villa Cimbrone but sadly just as we were getting to the turn off, it really started to pour. Our reason for going to the Villa was to tour the famous, beautiful gardens and it would be hard to do in the rain.












We continued our drive toward Salerno and then got on the A3 and headed north. We joked the whole way as we approached Rome on the A1 about how we wanted to avoid any possible wrong turn that might get us back into a nightmare where ”all roads lead to Rome”! Interestingly, we had none of the traffic we had experienced on the way down. Couldn’t figure out why the change. Orvieto is our next stop.