Positano

After two very relaxing and interesting days in Amalfi, we travelled by bus - yes, on those hair raising roads again, up to Agerola to start our walk.  After a shaking start finding the trail from the town square, abit like a scavenger hut, with some other English speaking trampers, we set off.  Ahead of the rest, we came across a group of religious people, a mixture of teenagers and a couple of priests, complete with guitar, chanting, praying and singing as they went.  At this time too we had a couple of locals on mules passing us on the high trail, greeting us with their friendly bonjourno.  The track was a mixture of dusty trail and stone steps, chiseled out of the cliffs years ago.  We had amazing postcard views and again my little camera photos doesn't do justice.   We followed the trail of the Sentiero deghi Dei, known as the Path of the Gods,  which follows the coast 500m above sea level, rugged and isolated, but so spectacular.

Somewhere we missed a turning, easy to do with the obscure signage, but could see where we were heading, so instead of going through the village of Montepertuso we descended 1700 steep steps from Nocelle to the outskirts of Positano.  From there we followed the narrow winding road for 2kms, sharing it again with buses, cars, scooters and one or two keen cyclists.  It was amazing walking down into Positano, overlooking the beach, lots of big beautiful boats offshore and the houses on the cliffs keeping watch over all the goings on.  Our luggage had arrived safely and beat us to the Hotel in Positano and was waiting in our very luxurious room overlooking the town and with sea view.  Lovely little balcony where we enjoyed our own antipasto dinner as the sun set over the massive hills surrounding the village.  Wonderful day, we could get used to this life.....