yesterday was exhausting… yesterday’s post was admittedly rather droopy as was I when I wrote it. So, to make up for it I offer a few photos and thoughts on them…

People often look at me like I’m crazy when they find out that I am going to be driving around Italy. Well, yes, maybe a little but I really enjoy driving around Italy. Are they crazy? Yes, but they are all the same kind of crazy so you know what to expect. Not like in the US where everyone is their own special kind of crazy and there’s no way to know what they are going to do. The biggest challenge in Italy is the narrow roads. This is an average road in Positano. Plenty of room for a car and pedestrians on either side right?

Most of the guide books say don’t drive to Positano. the road is too windy, too narrow, too many buses and no parking. They’re right. Oh well.

I wonder how you get to have a private parking spot like this and how much it costs.

This is one of our cars… Land Rover Discovery. Seats 5 with room for 5 carry-on bags and 5 personal bags. When we told Manuella that we were planning to go to Ravello, her eyes got big and she said “in those cars?!” She seems to think that they are huge and that we would have little chance of making it without incident. Hmmmm.

Even in the rain, Positano is stunning, dramatic, enchanting. It is easy to understand why the world has come to view Positano as an icon of Italian seaside splendor.

Lemons… just lemons. Everywhere lemons …