Hello Bathing Beauties,
As I write this we are now in real time at last. Siobhan and I are lounging on what they laughingly call sand here at Positano's main beach. Not on the grey stuff I might add but on a molto bene banana lounge with it's own head shade screener and complete with sun brolley. We feel like something outof a Frederico Fellini film! The water of the majestic Mediterranean is wonderfully blue and cool and sparkling in the mid day sun. It's a wam 30 degrees and we have fallen in love with this place in just 24 hours.
Arriving by ferry from Salerno, Positano loomed before us as we came closer to the shore, looking likely it could barely hold onto the mountain side. This place is charm personified with it's quaint shops in snug alleyways snaking up and down and sideways across the mountain face. Oh and did I mention it has a few stairs! We walked all 580 steps to our hotel. How do I know this ? Well when we finally got to our rooms, received CPR and were able to breathe unassisted, we stepped out onto our balcony to look at a view that encapsulates the entire Penninsula, a Perth couple are on the next balcony and they decide to impart this piece of totally unnecessary information. They are not sure if this total also includes the approximate 60 stairs to our actual room! Don't you love how droll the Australian can be.
Fortunately they have these whizz bang porter services so no lugging suitcases up said stairs - they meet you up there! I cannot tell you how grateful I was for that service. I will also be partioning the Pope to make the guy who introduced that service, a saint as well. Perhaps the. Saint of Those Cardiovascularly Compromised !!!!!! Saint TCC for short.
Our host is the most gentlemanly gentleman named Claudio and he cannot be more helpful or charming. He has given us the end suite which is large with two bedrooms and a bathroom. We have an arch angel over the doors out to the balcony looking over us as we sleep and a view to die for. All for 75€ a night. You just have to climb to heaven to get there but that's the same for everywhere here. We had a beautiful seafood dinner overlooking the sea and then crashed.
Today is a day of beaching, browsing and watching beautiful people walk by.
La dolce vita
Love
Siobhan and Kelly
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