Sunday, August 03, 2008

OOPS - HOW COULD I FORGET ITALY????

As pointed out by my lovely dad, I forgot to post something about my Italy trip with them.... not because it wasn't a great holiday, just because I lost my brain in the heat (no, really - ask my friends!). So, lets go back a month or so to the lovely Amalfi Coast, just near Napoli in Italy. If you have been to the Cinque Terre then you have some idea what the Amalfi coast is like. Small villages perched on cliffs overlooking the Med, which is the most inky blue I have ever seen in an ocean. Great wines from the vineyards of Mt. Vesuvius, a vista from our balcony back along the coast to the 3 famous rocks off Capri, lots of tiny churches loaded with Moorish influences, and roads that twist and turn and can barely fit 1 car, let alone 2 buses heading in opposite directions, providing plenty of entertainment! We went to Pompeii, where the sheer scale of the city buried in ash is almost beyond comprehension, and to Ravello, a little village right up in the hills overlooking the Ocean. And don't forget the sun.........It's a place where you revert to "Italian time" and soak up the atmosphere......... highly recommended.

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