Italy Day 7:Positano

Woke up late and worked our way down to the beach after breakfast on our terrace. Croissant, cappuccino, yogurt.

The walk to the beach is a good ways but the stunning views and exercise is welcome.

We got down there and saw El Capitan, the beach chair guy. The Mrs had already set off to find us a good spot on the beach and I was talking to El Capitan when he started to try to give me a tip on where to sit. I stopped him half way in telling him no matter because the Boss is going to decide where we sit regardless of what he tells me.

He smiled and nodded knowing exactly what I meant.

The Mrs gets all the credit for the planning of the trip and she has done an excellent job with the help of our friends Randy and Stephanie and Trip Advisor. I can’t tell you enough how useful Trip Advisor has been in finding great little places that don’t turn up in the big mass marketing travel machine. Every one of them value and in the right locations specific to what WE like to do. By reading other people’s tips you can save a ton of money and avoid dumps or places that charge a ton because they are covering huge marketing expenses to get you to come stay with them.

Anyway, growing up on beaches back home we tend to separate from the pack whenever possible. You can tell who the Midwesterners are on any beach as it doesn’t matter if you are the only two people on the beach, they will set up their beach chairs practically on top of you.

So we go to the very end of the beach and there’s a grotto type rock structure and we set up there all by ourselves. It was about as perfect a beach day as you could imagine. The water is crystal clear. Like if you would have told me that this certain area was reserved for kings I would have totally understood and moved on but we had it to ourselves all day long. Stayed til 6:30PM. The Mrs read. I listened to music and read up on more digital photography techniques and we swam. She also did some cannonballs from our perch.

Dinner at Cafe Positano was fantastic. Second favorite meal in Positano behind La Tagliate. I’d been craving a steak so I got one with porcini mushrooms and she got some fish.

Great great beach day.