Grand Hotel Santa Maria Santa Maria di Castellabate

OK, so we're living on an Olive Farm for a while now.
Bohemian? Yes
Practical? Only when its sunny and only when its not olive picking season.
So what season is it now? Olive picking and its raining.

Welcome to our own little corner of Glastonbury

... office which allowed you to get there in 20 minutes for slightly more cost. So I found the circumvesuvian train station which I needed anyway as it is the only way to get to Sorrento and caught the very full and very shabby looking train covered in dirt and graffiti to Ercolano.
We were taken up in two taxis driven by some mean looking Italians, who looked like the kind to take us somewhere and shoot us. Although they probably woudn't need to considering how aggressively and badly ...

... with our photogropher but will not be able to post those pics until we get back to Canada. Danielle will be posting her pictures of the day on Facebook soon so everyone should be able to see them through a link. We obviously didnt get any pictures on our own camera as we were a little busy.
We are on our way to Florence tomorrow and we will have more time to write ...

This villa is absolutely amazing with the nicest hosts you'll find. We pass by a few, and none of them were as nice. they even have access to a beautiful private beach in case you want to avoid the messiness of the other public ones. Definitely look up this spot if you ever travel into Amalfi. webcam girls webcam tube

... There was a theatre or something that I guess we missed out on but we were happy with what we saw.

That night we had dinner with a couple from Quebec, Justine and David. We ate and talked with them until about 1:30am. It was nice to visit with people of similar interest. There was a bit of a language barrier but nothing compared to some of our other experiences. Plus it was nice to visit with people that could understand the differences between Canada and Europe.

... from the city centre to Fico D’India (our hotel) cost us 34.50euro for 6kms of travel. This place has some windy roads.

Our arrival at Fico D’India

We walked down a short cobble stone road to a homely hotel which was attached to the cliff side. We were greeted by Pino, the owner, who shook our hand and introduced himself. He asked us how we got to the hotel, we told him by cab and he ...

After recovering for the last few days today we decided to do the Amalfi coast. Upon arriving at the bus stop it appeared that every man, woman, child and dog had had the same idea as us. The queue was curving around the corner. We watched two buses pull up and leave before we were able to make it onto the third one.

For the next hour and a half we drove through some of the most dramatic scenery Italy has to offer. Bending and swerving through the ...

Amalfi and the surrounding coast is my favorite place in the world. We have been several times and we always use my friend Paolo Bellantonio for our driver/guide. We have known him for over 10 years. He takes great care of us. This trip we said to him... "Surprise us". We had no idea what we would be doing or where we were going.

He picked us up in the port of Amalfi, where the village is ...

... but adding vodka would be a thought if you wanted to). We are watching kids play volleyball on the packed beach and I think about the time Barrett and Shane played soccer with the kids on the beach in Spain. So its back on the boat to head to Amalfi. This is the Amalfi Coast and there is a town called Amalfi. Again the coast is incredible. We pull into Amalfi and it is even more picturesque then the last spot ...

... injecting plaster into them to recreate the forms of victims - the result is very accurate human forms who failed to escape the eruption with many having expressions of terror on their faces!). We were pooped by the end of our thorough walk through the city so got lots of goodies from the supermarco and scoffed our faces with Italian goodness (including an enormous bottle of fizzy red wine - we discovered ...