The Tiber River flows through Rome. Has for as long as men can remember. The Tiber served as a defensive barrier during the Roman Empire. It kept the undesirables out. It also kept those who supported the city and its inhabitants living on the other side. That was true until recently, when tourists suddenly found good food, good wine, and interesting history that had been ignored. We had the opportunity to visit…
At the end of our anniversary trip we arranged a van from Positano Car Service, Via Cristoforo Colombo, 2 84017 Positano (Sa) Italy www.positanocarservice.com, to transport the six of us from Positano to Rome directly. Our driver was Enrico who provided our last lingering looks at the pastel blue waters, high rocky mountains with homes, restaurants and shops, hanging off at impossible angles, and the rock outcrop where two natural tunnels have…
Our Positano cliffside apartment, Casa Della ‘Uovo or House of the Egg (71 Trara Genovo) has been our base of operations for the many trips we have taken in our five days here, the dinners we have shared in a wide variety of locations and styles and the easy conversations about a wide range of subjects of importance to each and all of us. Clementina is the housekeeper who comes and cleans…
We returned to our hotel to clean up before our evening meal which a friend of Karen had recommended, although the friend was unable to eat there. La Tagliata Positano. Via Tagliata 32B, Positano. The restaurant was a long distance from our apartment, so we arranged through the restaurant to be picked up at Hotel Poseidon, which was a five-minute walk. The bus wound its way through the streets of Positano eventually…
We descended the four hundred (estimated by Gil, one member of our party) from the apartment to the main beach in Positano where we picked up a high-speed ferry to Amalfi, a trip of about thirty minutes. The cost of the trip was eight Euros per person and brought us into the main shopping area and port in Amalfi. This city is most noted for the Cathedral of St. Andrew, which…