After the exhausting day and the frustrating parking and Manuella’s reaction to our plan for Ravello and taking into account our sore muscles and achy backs, we decided to take an easy morning at the villa and go into Positano in the afternoon to do a little shopping, people watching and dinner out. The plan is also to be home in time to pack up and be ready to get on the road in the morning. Of course we’re expecting it will take at least 45 minutes to fetch the cars and get back to the villa…

The beach in Positano is a people watching paradise. The world is on display all over the gravel. The bella figura Italians, completely uninhibited Ausies, the “hey look at me glam” Russians, the buttoned up and over dressed Japanese… and of course the cargo shorts and logo t-shirted Americans. It ‘s quite a show really.

Dinner is at Buca di Bacco, one of the nicer restaurants in Town. We ran into a couple from Ann Arbor at the next table and of course the conversation came around to the NCAA basketball tourney.

The food was excellent. The was grilled sea bass with beans and crusty potatoes, a grilled seafood platter with squid, prawns, octopus, clams, sardines… etc. I had the steamed sea bass with asparagus and a ceasar salad. oh… and there was wine. 😉 The service was very friendly and solicitous. But unfortunately they were not particularly competent. 2 messed up orders out of 10 and 2 messed up bills out of 6. Good thing the food was as good as it was.

We walked/wobbled our way home along the crazy road, our flashlights bobbing along at our sides in the assumption that they would make us more visible hence safe from being run over by a tour bus or a scooter.

We will miss this place, the kitties, Oksana and her coffee and pastries and tiding up after us… the friendly hair dryer in our bathroom…