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…
On our way back to Positano from Pompeii, we stopped in Sorrento for lunch at O’ Parrucchiano La Favorita, located at 71 Corso Italia (www.parrucchiano.it). This restaurant has been one of our favorites on several prior trips to Sorrento. The history behind the place is it was started by a former seminarian in 1868 at this location, the seminarian had learned to cook in the cloister and decided he would rather cook…
On the second day we emerged from our apartment to look around. Gil and Robin took off early, taking a fast boat to Capri, where they hired a driver to show them the island. They found it crowded even though we are in early September now. They did learn a bit of the history of the island, mostly focused on a doctor who settled there around 1900 and built a villa. He…