Dear Gourmands,
Following our day of serious learnings and cultural foray into the local music scene, we decided that a return to more leisurely pursuits was in order. Mind you, if we were any more laid back here, we would be dead. So we jumped the first boat at 10am and putted across to a little beach just down from the main cove of Positano.
This little beach is a tiny alcove etched into the cliff face of the mountain and has two restaurants on it from where you can hire your banana lounge and brolley for the day and eat at their restaurant at lunchtime. We had read about Da Aldolphi Restaurant in Amanda Tabberer 's book , "my Amalfi Coast". It's a local restaurant serving the freshest seafood in the most casual surrounds. Her former husband's family own the restaurant . So casual that the structure is just a temporary construction of beams and thatched roofing and the flooring is the volcanic rock and pebbles that is also the beach surface. To that are added wooden tables and chairs looking out towards the water. The waiters create a great sense of theatre as they move barefoot swiftly across the volcanic pebbles, up and down the external staircase to the kitchen delivering beautiful meals to the mainly local patrons and talking loudly with much theatrics and bonhomie!!! Our favorite was this lovely waiter called Claudio who like our Villa host, also named Claudio was so helpful with the menu and was as cheeky to boot.
After a few hours lying out in the sun flat out working up an appetite, swimming, lazing, swimming, we headed into the restaurant for a delicious meal of fresh mozzarella barbecued on lemon leaves, accompanied by proscuttio and figs and then a grilled local fish very similar to swordfish served with a fresh cold salad. All served with a half litre pitcher of local wine! Truly delicious!
The effort required to digest that lunch demanded another nana nap on the banana lounge and yet another cooling swim in the wonderful Mediteranean. Have I mentioned how tuff it is being on holidays peoples ? We boatted back to Positano around 5 ish for a strawberry daiquiri on the waterfront. By the time we meandered back to our room having interspersed the journey with some retail research, it was around 8.30ish. So no dinner for us, simply toooooo tired. We have hired a boat to spend our last day in Positano on the water scooting around so we decided to reserve our strength and stay in for the night. If the Italian drivers think that they are the worst in the world, then they haven't seen me drive a boat ! Mind you neither have I so it could be interesting!
Sleep tight
Kelly & Siobhan xxx
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