We stayed in a small, family-run hotel that clung to the cliff face hanging directly over the sea. We slept to the sound of the sea gently slapping against the rocks beneath our windows.
The hotel was, in parts, literally hewn out of the rock face. It was quite a surprise to walk down the stairs and come across this:
It was as though carving the last bit of rock away was just too much trouble!
We spent a lot of the week pottering up and down the coast to various small, beautiful fishing villages, where we drank a lot of coffee and ate a lot of seafood and pasta.
One day we hired a speedboat. The skipper took us along the coast from Amalfi to Naples, exploring the dramatic coastline with its little coves and grottos. We disembarked on Capri, where we walked the coast path and had lunch before leaving the island in style and being taken back along the coast. Rather than loading this post up with photos, I put together a slideshow of this day. Click on the arrow below to start the slideshow.
Next time, I’ll share photos of our day in the extraordinary ancient cities of Pompei and Herculaneum.
