3rd Day and Night in Positano
Monday 4th September 2006
It had been a very hot and sticky night making it very difficult to sleep as there was no air conditioning or even fans. Sheila was up and out by 0815 having not slept much and wanting to get a adaptor plug to enable her to use her hairdryer one of the ladies travel essentials, on the shopping list was also some toilet rolls, one of the essentials for all of us.
Adam and Rosalind came in at 1000, they had gone for a run at 0800 to the village of Priano and back, on the way back Rosalind was lucky to just avoid being run over by a car on a sharp bend.
Fortunata was cleaning the house and Sheila asked Fortunata to show Sheila how to work the washing machine. Unfortunata spoke NO English, but some how they managed to communicate.
After Rosalind and Adam cooled off and changed, we all walked down the roadway to the main beach area and had lunch on the promenade. Adam and Rosalind had octopus salad, Sheila a tuna salad, while I felt obliged to order a pizza, again, but this time I asked for a vegetable pizza and this made me feel a little righteous. Sheila and I also had a gelato of various flavours.
We wandered via MANY shops back to the square at the top of the pedestrian precinct, where the bus terminates on its round trip. I suggested to Sheila that she take the bus back to the villa while I investigated the cost of hiring a motor scooter to make it easier for Sheila and I to get around the village. I went to a couple of places, one place quoted 50 Euros a day for a 50 cc scooter and 65 Euros a day for a 125 cc scooter, that is about Australian $100 a day. I went to another place and there I was offered a Vespa for 400 Euros for 10 days hire or about Australian $1,000 I said that I wanted to hire it not buy it, but that was their ‘best price’; the hills stopped looking as steep and the ‘orange bus was looking more and more like my transport of choice.
Adam and Rosalind went food shopping and prepared a superb platter of antipasto which we ate in our moonlit loggia. Then while we had a siesta Adam cooked a huge pot of mushroom risotto; after dinner we all felt exhausted and had another early night.
The following pictures are examples of the steep stairways of Positano:
It had been a very hot and sticky night making it very difficult to sleep as there was no air conditioning or even fans. Sheila was up and out by 0815 having not slept much and wanting to get a adaptor plug to enable her to use her hairdryer one of the ladies travel essentials, on the shopping list was also some toilet rolls, one of the essentials for all of us.
Adam and Rosalind came in at 1000, they had gone for a run at 0800 to the village of Priano and back, on the way back Rosalind was lucky to just avoid being run over by a car on a sharp bend.
Fortunata was cleaning the house and Sheila asked Fortunata to show Sheila how to work the washing machine. Unfortunata spoke NO English, but some how they managed to communicate.
After Rosalind and Adam cooled off and changed, we all walked down the roadway to the main beach area and had lunch on the promenade. Adam and Rosalind had octopus salad, Sheila a tuna salad, while I felt obliged to order a pizza, again, but this time I asked for a vegetable pizza and this made me feel a little righteous. Sheila and I also had a gelato of various flavours.
We wandered via MANY shops back to the square at the top of the pedestrian precinct, where the bus terminates on its round trip. I suggested to Sheila that she take the bus back to the villa while I investigated the cost of hiring a motor scooter to make it easier for Sheila and I to get around the village. I went to a couple of places, one place quoted 50 Euros a day for a 50 cc scooter and 65 Euros a day for a 125 cc scooter, that is about Australian $100 a day. I went to another place and there I was offered a Vespa for 400 Euros for 10 days hire or about Australian $1,000 I said that I wanted to hire it not buy it, but that was their ‘best price’; the hills stopped looking as steep and the ‘orange bus was looking more and more like my transport of choice.
Adam and Rosalind went food shopping and prepared a superb platter of antipasto which we ate in our moonlit loggia. Then while we had a siesta Adam cooked a huge pot of mushroom risotto; after dinner we all felt exhausted and had another early night.
The following pictures are examples of the steep stairways of Positano:
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